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ID	12237
Last Name	Baker
First Name	Henry
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Gender	Male
Date of Birth	1698
Date of Death	1774
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VIAF URI	http://viaf.org/viaf/20018411
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Role	Title	Date
Author	An invocation of health. A poem. By Mr. Henry Baker.	1723
Author	Original poems: serious and humourous. By Mr. Henry Baker.	1725
Author	An attempt towards a natural history of the polype: in a letter to Martin Folkes, Esq; president of the Royal Society. Describing Their different Species; the Places where to seek and how to find them; their wonderful Production and Increase; the Form, Structure and Use of their several Parts; and the Manner they catch their Prey. With an Account of their Diseases and Cures; of their amazing Reproduction after being cut in Pieces, (as first discovered by Mr. Trembley, at the Hague;) of the best Methods to perform that Operation, and of the Time requisite to perfect the several Parts after being divided: And Also full Directions how to feed, clean, manage and preserve them at all Seasons of the Year. Likewise a Course of real Experiments, performed by cutting these Creatures in every Way that can be easily contrived: shewing the daily Progress of each Part towards becoming a perfect Polype. The Whole explained every where by great Numbers of proper Figures, and intermixt throughout with Variety of Observations and Experiments. By Henry Baker, Fellow of the Royal Society, and Member of the Society of Antiquaries, in London.	1743

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"Baker, Henry" The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 12237, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/person/12237. Accessed 2026-08-02.

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