page_title: Job Baster
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caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: jobibasterimeddo12bast (find matches) Title: Jobi Basteri med. doct., Acad. Caes. ... Opuscula subseciva&#160;: observationes miscellaneas de animalculis et plantis, quibusdam marinis, eorumque ovariis et seminibus continentia Year: 1760 (1760s) Authors: Baster, Job, 1711-1775 Rhodius, T., ill Subjects: Marine biology Marine animals Marine plants Embryology Publisher: Harlemi&#160;: Apud Joannem Bosch Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ^o,III. TAB.ia Text Appearing After Image: ci^om . Zt. ^^.11. Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Job Baster, sometimes Hiob Baster, was a Dutch physician and naturalist who devoted himself almost entirely to the study of medicine and natural history.
  He studied and took his degree of doctor of medicine at Leiden in 1731, and Albrecht von Haller has thought his thesis, De Osteogenia, worthy of a place in his collection. Professors like Herman Boerhaave trained him in scientific methods and he learned to how study natural phenomena. After his study he visited the hospitals and botanical gardens in Paris and London where he became friends with Philip Miller and Hans Sloane. Afterwards he settled as a physician in his native town Zierikzee.
  In 1738 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society in London on recommendation of Boerhaave and Willem 'sGravesande. Baster was a versatile scientist, in addition to his work as a physician he contributed papers about medicine, horticulture and marine biology to the Philosophical Transactions and the Verhandelingen der Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen. He also maintained a vast correspondence with leading biologists of his time.
context_section_description: Job Baster, sometimes Hiob Baster, (2 April 1711, in Zierikzee – 6 March 1775) was a Dutch physician and naturalist who devoted himself almost entirely to the study of medicine and natural history.
  He studied and took his degree of doctor of medicine at Leiden in 1731, and Albrecht von Haller has thought his thesis, De Osteogenia, worthy of a place in his collection. Professors like Herman Boerhaave trained him in scientific methods and he learned to how study natural phenomena. After his study he visited the hospitals and botanical gardens in Paris and London where he became friends with Philip Miller and Hans Sloane. Afterwards he settled as a physician in his native town Zierikzee.
  In 1738 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society in London on recommendation of Boerhaave and Willem 'sGravesande. Baster was a versatile scientist, in addition to his work as a physician he contributed papers about medicine, horticulture and marine biology to the Philosophical Transactions and the Verhandelingen der Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen. He also maintained a vast correspondence with leading biologists of his time. In Holland he was famous for his introduction of the goldfish (Kin-Yu) and his translation of Philip Miller's work on horticulture.
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