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CARLYLE'S vivid portraiture of Marat as “horse-leech” and savage revolutionist has rather obscured the fact that this “friend of the people” was a learned doctor of medicine, a physicist, and a physiologist. It is true that Carlyle refers to him as “Renovator of Human Science, Lecturer on Optics,” but the mistake about the “horse-leech” is repeated in the same passage.
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OSBORNE, W. Marat and the Deflection of Light. Nature 105, 456 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105456d0
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