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Fludd, Robert (bap. 1574, d. 1637), physician and writer on the occult  

Ian Maclean

Fludd, Robert (bap. 1574, d. 1637), physician and writer on the occult, was born in Milgate House, Bearsted, Kent, and baptized on 17 January 1574 in Bearsted parish church, the seventh of twelve children of Sir Thomas Fludd (d. 1607), who served the crown in various senior administrative appointments, and his wife, ...

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Poole, Robert (1707/8–1752), physician and theological writer  

Jean Loudon

Poole, Robert (1707/8–1752), physician and theological writer, about whose childhood nothing is known, completed his initial education at the Academy of Liberal Arts and Sciences in London. Nearly everything known about him comes from his own writings, and some of his early accounts describe the years he spent under ...