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)