John Davy (1790–1868), the only brother of Sir Humphry Davy (1778–1829), was an army doctor, serving overseas, in various posts, in Belgium, France, Ceylon, the Ionian Islands, Malta, and the West Indies. He was also a researcher, a writer in his own right, and the editor of his brother’s works. This study, drawing principally on three unpublished manuscript sources recovered during work on the Davy Letters Project, examines a crucial, formative period in John Davy’s life – the years 1808–1814 – and situates him in the cultures and networks, scientific and literary, of which he was part. It explores John Davy’s time working as an assistant at the Royal Institution (1808–1811), a period he spent in Edinburgh as a student (1811–1813), and his engagement there in a scientific dispute with John Murray (1778–1820) over the chemical composition of muriatic acid gas, and the time he spent in his native Cornwall in 1814, prior to his first medical posting with the military.

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约翰戴维的新亮点

约翰戴维 (1790–1868)，汉弗莱戴维爵士 (1778–1829) 唯一的兄弟，是一名军医，在海外服役，在比利时、法国、锡兰、爱奥尼亚群岛、马耳他和西印度群岛担任多个职位. 他还是一名研究员，本身就是一名作家，也是他兄弟作品的编辑。这项研究主要利用在戴维信件项目工作期间恢复的三份未发表的手稿来源，考察了约翰戴维生命中一个关键的形成时期——1808-1814 年——并将他置于文化和网络、科学和文学、他是其中的一部分。它探讨了约翰·戴维 (John Davy) 在皇家学院 (1808–1811) 担任助理的时间，他在爱丁堡学习期间 (1811–1813)，