Mark Ridley (physician)

[1][2] Following studies at Cambridge, Ridley was employed by the Muscovy Company as physician to the English merchants in Russia.

So lexica compiled by foreign business visitors to Russia reflected the actual Russian language use that they had encountered through daily interaction.

It has permitted significant chronological corrections and expansion of the semantics of particular words when there were discrepancies with the major Russian historical dictionaries.

Mark Ridley's dictionary included a sizeable number of words or phrases never recorded before (2249 entries out of total 6975).

In 1613 Ridley published his Magneticall Bodies and Motions, the first printed English work to promote Gilbert's ideas.