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Israel Lyons

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Lyons married, in March 1774, Phoebe Pearson, daughter of Newman Pearson of Over, Cambridgeshire, and settled in Rathbone Place, London. There he died of measles on 1 May 1775, at the age of only 36, while preparing a complete edition of
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at the age of 19, and his enthusiasm for botany resulted in a published survey of Cambridge flora a few years later. An Oxford undergraduate,
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Lynn B. Glyn, "Israel Lyons: A Short but Starry Career. The Life of an Eighteenth-Century Jewish Botanist and Astronomer,"
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origins, Lyons was not permitted to become an official member of the
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European and American voyages of scientific exploration
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Cambridge
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Trinity College, Cambridge
Mathematician
botanist
University of Oxford
Robert Smith
Cambridge
Robert Smith
Trinity College
Jewish
University of Cambridge
Joseph Banks
University of Oxford
Astronomer Royal
Nautical Almanac
1773 North Pole voyage
Constantine Phipps
Edmond Halley
Royal Society
author abbreviation
citing
botanical name
European and American voyages of scientific exploration
International Plant Names Index
 Lyons
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People associated with the University of Cambridge
18th-century English mathematicians

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