Virtuoso by nature : : the scientific worlds of Francis Willughby FRS (1635-1672) / / edited by Tim Birkhead.

Francis Willughby together with John Ray revolutionized the study of natural history. They were motivated by the new philosophy of the mid 1600s and transformed natural history in to a rigorous area of study. Because Ray lived longer and more of his writings have survived, his reputation subsequentl...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Emergence of Natural History 1.
Physical Description:1 online resource (465 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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505 0 0 |t Preliminary Material --   |t 1 The Life and Domestic Context of Francis Willughby /  |r Dorothy Johnston --   |t 2 The Education of Francis Willughby /  |r Richard Serjeantson --   |t 3 The Chymistry of Francis Willughby (1635–72): The Trinity College, Cambridge Community /  |r Anna Marie Roos --   |t 4 Willughby’s Mathematics /  |r Benjamin Wardhaugh --   |t 5 Science on the Move: Francis Willughby’s Expeditions /  |r Mark Greengrass , Daisy Hildyard , Christopher D. Preston and Paul J. Smith --   |t 6 The Willughby Library in the Time of Francis the Naturalist /  |r William Poole --   |t 7 Francis Willughby and John Ray on Words and Things /  |r David Cram --   |t 8 Willughby’s Ornithology /  |r Tim R. Birkhead , Paul J. Smith , Meghan Doherty and Isabelle Charmantier --   |t 9 Historia Piscium (1686) and Its Sources /  |r Sachiko Kusukawa --   |t 10 Willughby on Insects /  |r Brian W. Ogilvie --   |t 11 The Legacies of Francis Willughby /  |r Isabelle Charmantier , Dorothy Johnston and Paul J. Smith --   |t Bibliography /  |r Tim Birkhead --   |t Index /  |r Tim Birkhead. 
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