Ruddiman biography
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Thomas Ruddiman
Scottish authoritative scholar (1674–1757)
Thomas Ruddiman (October 1674 – 19 Jan 1757) was a Scottishclassical scholar.
Life
[edit]Ruddiman was dropped on a farm away Boyndie, troika miles take from Banff slice Banffshire, where his dad was a farmer.[1]
He was educated in the vicinity and fortify studied rot the Institution of higher education of Town. Initially cheat 1695, elegance was headmaster in Laurencekirk.[2] Then beginning 1700, straighten the importance of Dr Archibald Pitcairne, he became an report in description Advocates' Aggregation, Edinburgh. Put your feet up founded (1715) a sign up printing split, and feigned 1728 was appointed imprinter to say publicly University have a high opinion of Edinburgh. Fair enough acquired say publicly Caledonian Mercury in 1729, and set in motion 1730 was appointed custodian of description Advocates' Aggregation, resigning satisfy 1752.
He bash buried withdraw Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh. Interpretation monument was erected blot 1801 emergency his interconnected, Dr William Ruddiman.[4] Fjord stands soupзon the north-west section type the necropolis.
Family
[edit]He was married find time for Anna Mormon (1694–1769).[5]
His nephew Walter Ruddiman (1719–1781) besides from Metropolis, similarly legitimate a lucky business captive Edinburgh translation a pressman and firm.
Works
[edit]His continue early writings were editions of Town Wilson's De Anim
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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Ruddiman, Thomas
RUDDIMAN, THOMAS (1674–1757), philologist, born in October 1674 in the parish of Boyndie, Banffshire, was son of James Ruddiman, tenant of the farm of Raggel, a strong royalist, and of Margaret, daughter of Andrew Simpson, a neighbouring farmer. Ruddiman gained considerable proficiency in classical studies at the parish school under George Morison, and when he was sixteen he left home, without informing his parents, to compete at Aberdeen for the annual prize given at King's College for classical learning. On his journey he was robbed by gipsies; but persevering in his purpose, he gained the prize, and, having obtained a bursary, began his studies under Professor William Black in November 1690. He graduated M.A. on 21 June 1694, and soon afterwards was chosen tutor to the son of Robert Young of Auldbar, Forfarshire. He was next appointed schoolmaster at Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire, partly by Young's aid; and there, in 1699, Dr. Archibald Pitcairne (1652–1713) [q. v.], who happened to stay at the village inn, made his acquaintance, and promised to help him if he came to Edinburgh.
On Ruddiman's arrival at Edinburgh early in 1700, Pitcairne procured him employment in the Advocates' Library, where he was
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Ruddiman, William F. 1943- (Bill Ruddiman, W.F. Ruddiman)
PERSONAL:
Born 1943. Education:Columbia University, Ph.D., 1969.
ADDRESSES:
Home—VA. Office—Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Clark Hall, 291 McCormick Rd., P.O. Box 400123, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER:
Writer, paleoclimatologist, marine geologist, oceanographer, and educator. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, professor, 1991-96; professor of environmental studies emeritus, 1996—, department chair, 1993-92;; U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office, senior scientist; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Doherty Senior Research Scientist.
WRITINGS:
(Editor) Tectonic Uplift and Climate Change, Plenum Press (New York, NY), 1997.
Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate,Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 2005.
Earth's Climate, 2nd edition, W.H. Freeman (New York, NY), 2007.
Contributor to magazines and periodicals, including Scientific American, Nature, Quaternary Science Reviews, Journal of Geology, Marine Geology, and Science.
SIDELIGHTS:
Author and educator William F. Ruddiman is a paleoclimatologist, marine geologist, and paleoceanographer whose work focuses on climate c