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William Carpenter (25 February 1830 – 1 September 1896) was an English printer and author, and a proponent of the flat Earth theory, active in England and the United States in the nineteenth century.
Jun 26, 2019 · In 1839, the 26-year-old medical student William Benjamin Carpenter, seeking to establish a reputation as a leading physiologist, was fast at work on his Principles of General and Comparative Physiology.
- John Lidwell-Durnin
- john.lidwell-durnin@history.ox.ac.uk
- 2020
William Carpenter may refer to: William Carpenter (1797–1874), theological and political writer, journalist, and editor. William Carpenter (Australian politician) (1863–1930), Australian politician. William Carpenter (flat-Earth theorist) (1830–1896), advocate of the Flat Earth theory.
May 21, 2018 · Carpenter, William Benjamin (1813–85) A surgeon and comparative anatomist, who used microscopy to investigate the structure of fossil shells, especially foraminifera and crinoids. He took part in several scientific voyages, including the Challenger expedition, as a result of which he became interested in marine physics and developed a theory ...
Aug 19, 2017 · Published by the author, Wm. Carpenter, Baltimore, Md. Price 25 cents.”—The Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia, July 31, 1886. “Here now is an able thinker of Baltimore, Professor William Carpenter, who presents the claims of the Zetetic philosophy to be considered the leading issue of our times …. One of the great proofs of the truth ...
- William Carpenter
- 1885
- English
William Kyle Carpenter (born October 17, 1989) is a medically retired United States Marine who received the United States' highest military honor, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in Marjah, Helmand Province, Afghanistan in 2010. Carpenter is the youngest living Medal of Honor recipient.
Dec 1, 2014 · Inspired by the experiments on ‘hypnosis’ carried out in Manchester in the 1840s by his acquaintance the physician James Braid, Carpenter rejected the notion that hypnotic, spiritualist and other trance-like states were the result of occult outside forces acting upon the patient.
