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  Thomas Bartholin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas Bartholin (Thomas Bartolinus) (October 20, 1616 – December 4, 1680) was a Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian.
Thomas Bartholin was the second of the six sons of the physician and Copenhagen professor Caspar Bartholin (the Elder) and his spouse Anne Fincke.
The Bartholin family became famous as a family of scientists, twelve of whom became professors at the University of Copenhagen.
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 Rasmus Bartholin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rasmus Bartholin (Latinized Erasmus Bartholinus; August 13, 1625 - November 4, 1698) was a Danish scientist and physician.
Rasmus Bartholin is remembered especially for his discovery (1669) of the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar (calcite).
Bartholin was also the first to document the physical characteristics of trisomy 13, Patau Syndrome, in medical literature.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rasmus_Bartholin   (191 words)

  
 Caspar Bartholin
Caspar Bartholin the Elder (1585-1629) was born at Malmo in Sweden and was a polymath, finally accepting a professorship in medicine at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1613.
His son, Thomas Bartholin[?], was also a physician, and was the father of Caspar Bartholin the Younger (1655-1738).
He was born in Copenhagen, and was first to describe the workings of the greater vestibular glands[?], which came to be known as "Bartholin's glands") and the larger salivatory duct[?] of the sublingual gland[?] ("Bartholin's duct[?]").
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 Bartholin biography
Erasmus Bartholin's father was Caspar Berthelsen Bartholin and his mother was Anna Fincke, daughter of the mathematician Thomas Fincke.
Bartholin wrote a large number of mathematical works but he is best remembered for his discovery of the double refraction of light through a crystal of Iceland spar which had been gathered in an expedition to Iceland in 1668.
Bartholin's explanation was based on Descartes' theory of light along with his idea that there were two sets of "pores" in the crystal.
www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/Biographies/Bartholin.html   (795 words)

  
 Thomas Bartholin (www.whonamedit.com)
Thomas Bartholin is commonly credited with the first description of the thoracic duct in man and Jean Pecquet with recognizing it in animals a few years earlier.
Thomas Bartholin was the second of the six sons of the famous family produced by Caspar Bartholin and his wife Anna, daughter of Thomas Fincke (1561-1656), who successively became professor of mathematics, rhetoric and medicine at Copenhagen.
Thomas Bartholin's self praise as well as the exaggerated praise lavished upon him by friends and colleagues have made a just evaluation of his efforts difficult.
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 Bartholin, Thomas - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Bartholin, Thomas
In 1670 he was named physician to the king, and in time was made a member of the grand council of Denmark.
Among Bartholin's numerous publications are a dissertation on medical poets (1669) and a study of diseases that are mentioned in the Bible (1672).
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Bartholin,+Thomas   (162 words)

  
 Rasmus Bartholin
Rasmus Bartholin (Latinized Erasmus Bartholinus; 1625-1698) was a Danish scientist and physician.
Only after Thomas Young had proposed the wave theory of light, an explanation became possible.
Rasmus Bartholin, Experimenta crystalli islandici disdiaclastici quibus mira & insolita refractio detegitur.
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 Bartholin's gland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Bartholin's glands (also called Bartholin glands or greater vestibular glands) are two glands located slightly below and to the left and right of the opening of the vagina in women.
Bartholin's glands are homologous to Cowper's glands in males.
A Bartholin's cyst is formed when a Bartholin's gland is blocked, causing a cyst to develop.
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 The Galileo Project
Caspar Bartholin, physician, Professor of eloquentia, medicine, and theology at University of Copenhagen.
Bartholin's father was a professor at the University of Copenhagen.
His mother's father, Thomas Fincke, was a professor at the university, as was his aunt's husband, Ole Worm.
galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/bartolin_tho.html   (585 words)

  
 BookRags: Lymphatic System Summary
After becoming embroiled in a controversy with Thomas Bartholin (1616-1680) about the priority of the discovery, Rudbeck joined the faculty at Uppsala, where he established one of Europe's outstanding botanical gardens and worked to reform and modernize the university.
Bartholin was the son of an eminent anatomist and theologian, Caspar Bartholin (1585-1629), and the father of another anatomist named Casper who gave his name to Bartholin's gland and Bartholin's duct.
Thomas became professor of anatomy at the University of Copenhagen in 1649 and soon began investigating the lymph system.
www.bookrags.com /research/lymphatic-system-wsd   (983 words)

  
 Thomas Bartholin ( 1616 - 1680 )   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Danish professor Thomas Bartholin was an anatomist, physician, naturalist, physiologist and mathematician.
Bartholin also described the use of so-called refrigeration anaesthesia.
Four decades later, iced salt solutions were also used in the early days of cryosurgery to shrink accessible tumours and relieve pain.
www.anaesthetized.com /people/thomas-bartholin.html   (100 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Bartholin (Medicine, Biography) - Encyclopedia
He was professor of medicine and later of theology at the Univ. of Copenhagen and author of a textbook of anatomy, Institutiones anatomicae (1611).
His son, Thomas Bartholin, 1616–80, physician, naturalist, and philologist, was professor of mathematics and of anatomy at the Univ. of Copenhagen.
Kaspar Bartholin, 1655–1738, a son of Thomas Bartholin, also a professor at the Univ. of Copenhagen, is credited with discovering the glands of Bartholin (a pair of glands of the vagina) and an accessory duct of the sublingual salivary gland.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Bartholi.html   (180 words)

  
 Anomalies Article: Spontaneous Human Combustion - Brief Reports
According to an article on spontaneous combustion written by one John Knott in 1905, this story was first told of in a book by the famous physician Thomas Bartholin [1616-1680] (who is the first source for many historic accounts of spontaneous human combustion, by the way).
Her body contracted such a combustible disposition, that one night she, lying down on a straw-couch, was all burned to ashes and smoke, except the scull and the extremities of her fingers."
I will attempt to get copy of Bartholin's account straight from his book, in case there are other details that are not mentioned; but tracking a copy of a book this old that I can look at will take some time.
anomalyinfo.com /articles/sa00042.shtml   (538 words)

  
 Featured Article: Library News: UIC University Library
The authors of each monograph, William Harvey and Thomas Bartholin, were eminent scientists in their era and each work has remained a classic in the history of medicine.
A native of the West Side, Dr. Tulsky wrote in his autobiography, "Looking at a Century: A Strand of Memories," that he first became interested in medicine when he saw the gleam from his uncle's surgical instruments as a youngster.
Bartholin’s work supported and helped clarify the early work by William Harvey on circulation.
www.uic.edu /depts/lib/news/archive/2003/feature0003.shtml   (555 words)

  
 The Galileo Project
Fincke had two daughters who married Caspar Bartholin and Ole Worm, both of whom had chairs at the Univ. of Copenhagen.
I think I have seen reference to Thomas' sons, whom he installed in chairs--if I recall, no less than four in number (and not confined to the sciences).
Was in contact with Brahe, Magini, Peder Soerensen, Caspar Bauhin, his son-in-law Caspar Bartholin and Ole Worm, and his grandsons Thomas and Erasmus Bartholin, and no doubt mang others during a long life.
galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/fink.html   (553 words)

  
 The Woman Who Vomited Frogs
When Dr. Thomas Rheinesius, a great physician from Saxony, decided to study Catharina's case, she seemed to stop vomiting frogs.
In 1648, after the physicians had left, Catharina began vomiting amphibians with a passion -- and the famous Thomas Bartholin was called in to study her.
Bartholin, a student of the Dutch school of anatomists, was no slouch.
sprott.physics.wisc.edu /pickover/vomit.html   (1349 words)

  
 Lake County Astronomical Society NightTimes
He got his education in Copenhagen at the university, where he studied under the Bartholin brothers Thomas (1616-1680, professor of mathematics and anatomy) and Erasmus (1625-1698, physicist and astronomer).
After studying mathematics and astronomy he became the personal assistant to Erasmus Bartholin, lived in his house and finally became his son in-law.
In 1671 Römer worked with Jean Picard (1620-1682), who had been sent by the French Academy to verify the exact location of Tycho Brahe's observatory.
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 Bartholin's gland - Free net encyclopedia
Template:Infobox Anatomy The Bartholin's glands (also called Bartholin glands or greater vestibular glands) are two glands located slightly below and to the left and right of the opening of the vagina in women.
They secrete mucus to provide lubrication, especially when the woman is sexually aroused, thus facilitating sexual activity.
This page was last modified 04:35, 14 March 2006.
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 JEFFLINE Forum - December 2004 - January 2005: Looking Back at Frontispieces: Selections from the Special Collection's ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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 Bartholin - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
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