Andrew Ure

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Andrew Ure

Andrew Ure (born May 18, 1778 in Glasgow , † January 2, 1857 in London ) was a British medic and professor of natural history and chemistry.

Life

Andrew Ure was educated at Glasgow High School. He then studied chemistry at the university there and medicine in Edinburgh . In 1800 "he had acquired the medical doctorate" and settled in Glasgow as a doctor. In 1805 he was appointed professor of natural history and chemistry at the Andersonian Institution . Ure dealt with astronomical research for several years and is considered to be the founder of the observatory, which opened in 1808. Then he mainly devoted himself to physical work and the application of chemical processes in industry / manufacturing and published his findings. His main focus was research on the elasticity and latent heat of the vapors of various liquids.

He caused a stir when he reported on his experiments on the body of the executed murderer Clydsdale. Ure had caused the corpse's muscles to contract through electrical stimulation and thus allegedly caused frightening facial expressions (see Luigi Galvani's frogs' leg experiments). Ure proposed that, under certain conditions, corpses could be resuscitated.

Ures attempts are considered to be one of the possible inspirations for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein .

From 1830 he lived in London and died there on January 2, 1857.

Important works

  • New experimental researches on some of the leading doctrines of caloric ; 1818; reprinted in the Transactions of the Royal Society in London>
  • Dictionary of chemistry , 1820
  • Memoir on the ultimate analysis of vegetable and animal substances , 1822
  • New system of geology , 1829
  • Philosophy of manufactures, or an exposition of the science, moral and commercial economy of the factory system of Great-Britain , 1835
  • On the cotton manufacture of Great Britain , 1836 (2 volumes); 2nd edition, London 1861
  • Dictionary of arts, manufactures and mines , 1839; (7th edition, London 1875, 3 volumes.), On which the Karmarsch- Heeren work is based.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e f g h Ure, Andrew in: Conversations-Lexikon, tenth edition 1855, FA Brockhaus-Verlag Leipzig; Volume 15; Page 355
personal data
SURNAME Ure, Andrew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English physician and professor of natural history and chemistry
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1857
Place of death London