Robert Plot

Robert Plot (Borden, Kent, England, 1640 December 13 - Borden, 1696 April 30), was a British naturalist, Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University and the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum. He is known for looking for natural curiosities in several English counties, writing Natural History of Oxfordshire in which he described the fossilized femur of a giant (now known to be from the dinosaur Megalosaurus) and Natural History of Staffordshire, in which he describes a double sunset{{fn|1}}.

References

• {{fnb|1}}{{Web reference | URL=http://www.leekonline.co.uk/sunset/ | title=Dr. Plot and the Amazing Double Sunset. | work=leekonline.co.uk | year=2005 | date=March 27}}
• {{Web reference | URL=http://www.chlt.org/sandbox/lhl/dsb/page.40.php?size=240x320 | title=Dictionary of Scientific Biography | work=Linda Hall Library | year=2005 | date=March 27}}
• {{Web reference | URL=http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/geocolls/plot/plotbib.htm | title=Robert Plot| work=Oxford Museum of Natural History | year=2005 | date=March 27}}