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Alexander Ross (c. 1590–1654) was a prolific Scottish writer and controversialist. ... The History of the World, the Second Part, in six books, ...
Ross, Alexander, The Fur Hunters of the Far West Google Books, "Alexander Ross's 1824 Route into Stanley Basin" [3] Abstract: Snake Country Expedition, 1824–25: An Episode of Fur Trade and Empire; by Frederick Merk; Journal of American History, Volume 21, Issue 1, 1 June 1934, Pages 49–62
Alexander Ross (engineer) (1845–1923), Scottish railway engineer; Alexander Charles Ross (1847–1921), business executive and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada; Alexander Clark Ross, mayor of Sherbrooke, 1942–1944; Alex Ross (rower) (Sir Alexander Ross, 1907–1994), New Zealand-born banker and rower; Alexander David Ross (1883 ...
Robert Burns praised Alexander Ross, writing "There is I know not what of wild happiness of thought and expression peculiarly beautiful in the old Scottish song style, of which his Grace, old venerable Skinner, the author of Tullochgorum etc., and the late Ross at Lochlee, of true Scottish poetic memory, are the only modern instances that I recollect, since Ramsay, with his contemporaries, and ...
Alexander also had strong ties with the north having previously been the Bishop of Orkney and Caithness. It is not possible to show which is the senior line, the Vasses of Ross-shire or Galloway, but it is possible that both descend from the de Vaux family who owned lands in East Lothian in the 13th century and who built the earliest surviving ...
His contemporary, Alexander Ross, erroneously rebutted him. [18] [19] In 1665, Robert Hooke published the first drawings of a microorganism. In 1676, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek drew and described microorganisms, probably protozoa and bacteria. [20]
In this approach Wilkins had to back away somewhat from his writings of the late 1630s and early 1640s. He made light of this in the way of pointing to Alexander Ross, a very conservative Aristotelian who had attacked his own astronomical works, as a more suitable target for Webster. This exchange was part of the process of the new experimental ...
Alexander Ross, architect, around 1875. Alexander Ross FRIBA LLD (9 July 1834 – 19 May 1925) was a 19th/20th century Scottish architect specialising in churches, especially for the Free Church of Scotland and the Scottish Episcopal Church. He was Provost of Inverness from 1889 to 1895.