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Arthur Young
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 119
Top works
- Arthur Young's Tour in Ireland (1776-1779)
- Arthur Young's Tour in Ireland
- On the efficacy of yeast in the cure of those diseases known by the name of putrid
- Travels in France [Christmas Summary Classics]
- Quebec nationalism
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Canada
- Active from
- 1945-11-12
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,931
- Total plays
- 12,032
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,494x
- AutoDock Vina: Improving the speed and accuracy of docking with a new scoring function, efficient optimization, and multithreading
· 2009 · cited 33,785x
- AutoDock4 and AutoDockTools4: Automated docking with selective receptor flexibility
· 2009 · cited 23,184x
- CBAM: Convolutional Block Attention Module
· 2018 · cited 18,179x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,964x
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Quotes
- “I have before proved the nation to be in the possession of a vast income, highly sufficient for all demands, to possess a vigorous agriculture, flourishing manufactures, and an extended commerce, in a word, to be a great industrious country. Now I conceive that it is impossible to prove such points, without proportionably proving the kingdom to be a populous one.”
- “every one but an ideot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious:: I do not mean that the poor in England are to be kept like the poor of France; but the state of the country considered, they must be (like all mankind) in poverty, or they will not work.”
- “Small properties, much divided, prove the greatest source of misery that can possibly be conceived, and has operated to such a degree and extent in France, that a law ought certainly to be made to render all division below a certain number of arpens illegal.”
- “No person can have been in Norfolk without quickly perceiving, that in this branch of rural economy the county has very little to boast. No where are meadows and pastures worse managed: in all parts of the county we see them over-run with all sorts of spontaneous rubbish, bushes, briars, rushes: the water stagnant: ant-hills numerous: in a word, left in a state of nature, by men who willingly make all sorts of exertions to render their arable land clean, rich and productive.”
- “A country is signally blessed above others, which can grow .”
- “A vast change had taken place in English social life within two generations... View the navigation, the roads, the harbours and all other public works. Take notice of the spirit with which manufactures are carried on. Move your eye which side you will, you behold nothing but great riches and yet greater resources.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1741-09-11 ) 11 September 1741, Whitehall , London
- Died
- 12 April 1820 (1820-04-12) (aged 78), Sackville Street, London
- Occupations
- Writer on agriculture , economics , and social statistics
via Wikipedia infobox
Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Arthur Young, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Arthur Young FRS (11 September 1741 – 12 April 1820) was an English agriculturist. Not himself successful as a farmer, he built on connections and activities as a publicist a substantial reputation as an expert on agricultural improvement. After the French Revolution of 1789, his views on its politics carried weight as an informed observer, and he became an important opponent of British reformers.
Young is considered a major English writer on agriculture and an early contributor to agricultural economics, although he is best known as a social and political observer. Also read widely were his Tour in Ireland (1780) and Travels in France (1792).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Arthur Young” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.