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Robert Plot (
13 December 1640–
April 30 1696) was an
English naturalist, first Professor of
Chemistry at the
University of Oxford, and the first keeper of the
Ashmolean Museum.
Born in
Borden, Kent, Plot is known for looking for natural curiosities in several English counties, and for writing
Natural History of Oxfordshire in which he described the fossilised femur of a giant (now known to be from the
dinosaur Megalosaurus) and
Natural History of Staffordshire, in which he describes a double sunset, and also reported the existence of a long-forgotten network of underground
tunnels. According to the book, the entrance to these long-forgotten caves was discovered by a farm workman who, while digging a trench, discovered a large iron plate beneath the earth. The hatch was large and oval, with an
iron ring mounted on it
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In 1677 he became a fellow of the
Royal Society as a result of his exhibition of minerals, and in 1682 became the society's Secretary, and joint editor of the
Philosophical Transactions. In the field of chemistry he searched for a universal solvent that could be obtained from wine spirits, and believed that alchemy was necessary for medicine. After 1686 Plot focused more on archaeology, but misinterpreted
Roman remains as
Saxon. He stressed the unusual; he studied echoes in order to learn about air, mineral waters, and recognised types of earth in layers, but believed that
fossil shellfish were coincidental mineral crystallisations, and that some spring water must originate from the sea flowing through underground channels.
This office of
Mowbray Herald Extraordinary was created in January 1695 for Plot, who was made Registrar of the
College of Arms just two days later.
Plot died in Borden, the village of his birth.
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