Stephen Hales

Person · Open Library

Born

1677

Died

1761

Works

64

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1972-01-17

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Basic local alignment search tool

   · 1990 · cited 80,818x

2. Convex Optimization

   · 2004 · cited 41,074x

3. Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows

   · 2021 · cited 29,283x

4. Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers

   · 1938 · cited 24,544x

5. Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations

   · 1991 · cited 23,123x

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Quotes

• “And since in vegetables, their growth and the preservation of their vegetable life is promoted and maintained, as in animals, by the very plentiful and regular motion of their fluids, which are the vehicles ordained by nature, to carry proper nutriment to every part; it is therefore reasonable to hope, that in them also, by the same method of inquiry, considerable discoveries may in time be made, there being, in many respects, a great analogy between plants and animals.”
• “The bodies which I distilled... (Fig. 38.) were Horn, calculus humanus, Oystershell, Oak, Mustard seed, Indian-wheat, se, Tobacco, oil of Anniseed, oil of Olives, Honey, Wax, Sugar, , , Earth, Walton Mineral, sea Salt, Salt-petre, Tartar, Sal Tartar, , Minium.”
• “We have... many proofs of the great force with which plants and their several branches and leaves imbibe moisture, up their capillary sap vessels: The great influence the perspiring leaves have in this work...”
• “I was at first much discouraged, when I reflected on my Rashness, in venturing on an Undertaking, which had baffled the repeated Attempts of the best Philosophers and Chymists, both Ancient and Modern: In so much that they looked upon it as almost impracticable to find out any way to procure a wholesome Drink from Sea-Water.”
• “I shall... give an Account of what has been formerly attempted for making Sea-Water drinkable, especially what was done by Mr. Walcot and Mr. Fitz-gerald in King Charles the Second's Time.”
• “St. Basil, in his Homilies, says that when Men were cast on an Island, where there was no fresh Water; and they boiled Sea-Water; and catched the Vapour with Sponges, which they squeezed into another Boiler; and having passed thus, four or five Times from Boilers thro' Sponges, it became drinkable. This tedious way was used before the method of Disttiling was known, which was an Invention of the Arabs.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1677-09-17 ) 17 September 1677, Bekesbourne , England

Died

4 January 1761 (1761-01-04) (aged 83), Teddington , England

Awards

Copley Medal (1739)

Fields

Plant physiology Chemistry Physiology

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