Emanuel Mendez da Costa

Emanuel Mendez da Costa (5 giugno 1717 – 31 maggio 1791) è stato un botanico, naturalista e filosofo inglese, nonché collezionista di note preziose, di manoscritti e di aneddoti dei letterati..

Biografia

Da Costa fu eletto uno dei primi membri ebrei della Royal Society of London nel 1747 e divenne il loro bibliotecario. Nel 1767, dopo aver scoperto che stava trattenendo le tasse di iscrizione dei membri, fu ritenuto colpevole di frode e condannato a cinque anni nel carcere dei debitori.[1]

Era anche un collega della Society of Antiquaries of London; membro della Società botanica fiorentina, dell'Aurelian Society e della Gentleman's Society at Spalding.

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da Costa è l'abbreviazione standard utilizzata per le specie animali descritte da Emanuel Mendez da Costa.
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Note

  1. ^ (EN) James Grout: Da Costa and the Venus dione: The Obscenity of Shell Description, su penelope.uchicago.edu. URL consultato il 28 gennaio 2019.

Bibliografia

  • Jewish Encyclopedia
  • P.J.P. Whitehead, 1977. "Emanuel Mendez da Costa and the conchology,or Natural History of Shells", Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Historical Series), 6:1-24
  • (EN) G.S. Rousseau e David Haycock, The Jew of Crane Court: Emanuel Mendes Da Costa (1717–91), Natural History and Natural Excess, in Jnl of the History of Science, vol. 38, 120ª ed., 2000, p. 127-170.
  • James Grout: Da Costa and the Venus dione: The Obscenity of Shell Description, part of the Encyclopædia Romana

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