Author:John Aikin

John Aikin
(1747–1822)

John Aikin

Works

• Observations on the external use of preparations of lead, 1771 external source
• Thoughts on hospitals, 1771 external source
• Essays on song-writing, 1772 external source
• Miscellaneous pieces, in prose with Anna Letitia Barbauld, 1773 external source
• The Bill of Mortality of the Town of Warrington, for the Year 1773., 1774 external source
• A specimen of the medical biography of Great Britain, 1775 external source
• An Essay on the Application of Natural History to Poetry, 1777 external source
• Biographical memoirs of medicine in Great Britain, 1780 external source
• England Delineated Or, A Geographical Description of Every County in England and Wales, 1790 external source
• The spirit of the constitution and that of the Church of England, compared, 1790 external source
• Poems, 1791 external source
• A view of the character and public services of the late John Howard, 1792 external source
• Letters from a father to his son, 1793 external source
• A view of the life, travels, and philanthropic labors of the late John Howard, Esquire L.L.D. F.R.S., 1794 external source
• The calendar of nature, 1794 external source
• A Description Of Manchester, 1795 external source
• A description of the country from thirty to forty miles around Manchester, 1795 external source
• An essay on man, 1796 external source
• General biography; or, Lives critical and historical, 1799 vol 1, vol 2, vol 3, vol 4, vol 5, vol 6, vol 7, vol 8, vol 9, vol 10
• The natural history of the year, 1799 external source
• The arts of life, 1802 external source
• The woodland companion: or, A brief description of British trees, 1802 external source
• Geographical delineations: or, a compendious view of the natural and political state of all parts of the globe, 1806 external source
• Vocal Poetry, 1810 external source
• Annals of the Reign of King George the Third, 1816 (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• Memoir of John Aikin, M.D., 1823 vol 1, vol 2

Contributions

• "An Essay On the Plan and Character of Thomson's Seasons", in The Seasons (1791), by James Thomson

Works about Aikin

• "Aikin, John (1747-1822)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Aikin, John," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Aikin, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)