James Millar (physician)
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James Millar FRSE FRCPE (1762–1827) was a Scottish physician, natural scientist and author. He edited the fourth and fifth editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica.[1]
Although a good writer on scientific topics, he was deemed a poor chief editor of the Britannica, being "slow and dilatory and not well qualified".[2]
[edit] References and footnotes
- ^ Waterston, Charles D; Macmillan Shearer, A (July 2006). Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783-2002: Biographical Index. II. Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 9780902198845. http://www.rse.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf. Retrieved 22 December, 2011.
- ^ "Encyclopedias". Encyclopædia Britannica. 14th edition, 1954.
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