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Henry Baker

(1698-1774), Naturalist

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Naturalist and poet; Baker devised a system of instructing the deaf, which caught the attention of Daniel Defoe, whose youngest daughter Sophia he married in 1729. Baker was a significant contributor to the popularisation of microscopy, publishing two books, The Microscope Made Easy (1743) and Employment for the Microscope (1753) that were extremely popular throughout the eighteenth century.

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Henry Baker, by William Nutter, published by John Bowyer Nichols, after Thomson - NPG D1015

Henry Baker

by William Nutter, published by John Bowyer Nichols, after Thomson
stipple engraving, published 1 January 1812
NPG D1015

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