Charles F. Winslow

Dr. Charles Frederick Winslow (30 June 1811 – 7 July 1877) was a physician, diplomat, author, and scientist born in Nantucket, Massachusetts. He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1834. He is the author of "Force and Nature", an early work on atomic theory. He served as a physician in Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii from 1844 to 1847, and also in Nantucket, Massachusetts. He was appointed U.S. Consul at Payta, Peru, a noted whaling port, in 1862. He died July 7, 1877. After his death, he was cremated in Salt Lake City, Utah, on July 31, 1877. This was the second recorded cremation in U.S.history. His heart is buried in Nantucket, in the Newtown Burial Ground. His ashes are buried with his wife's remains in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Books

Cosmography, or the Philosophical View of the Universe (1853)

Preparation of the Earth for Intellectual Races (a transcription of a lecture to the California Assembly) (1854)

The Cooling Globe (1865)

Forces of Nature: Attraction and Repulsion (1869)

Sources

• Winslow Family Papers, collection 166, Nantucket Historical Association, Research Library and Archives
• Biography of Charles Frederick Winslow [1]
• Druett, Joan (2000). Rough Medicine, Surgeons at Sea in the Age of Sail. NY, NY: Routledge. p. 162. ISBN 0-415-92451-0. has an unsympathetic biography.
• Winslow, Charles F. Force and Nature. Attraction and Repulsion: The Radical Principles of Energy, Discussed in their Relations to Physical and Morphological Developments.. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Michigan Historical Reprint Series, Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library. ISBN 978-1-4255-5630-3.

External links

• Charles F. Winslow's grave marker, Newtown Cemetery, Nantucket from the Nantucket Historical Association Cemetery Inscription Database
• The Intriguing Seamen's Hospital, p. 122–125