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2 de may. de 2018 · The Wonderful Mr Willughby: The First True Ornithologist Tim Birkhead Bloomsbury (2018) Francis Willughby was a wide-ranging virtuoso in a virtuosic age. Remembered for a pioneering study of bird ...
17 de ago. de 2018 · Francis Willughby, pictured here in a portrait, was the first naturalist to actually describe species, including the measurements of birds, fish, and insects—something we now take for granted.
17 de jul. de 2018 · In a few places he describes some of Willughby’s experiences in an attempt to recreate Willughby’s voice and experience—in essence, being Francis Willughby—to enliven the text. The result—history, biography, ideas and birds—is, in a word, wonderful. SOURCES. Birkhead TR (2008) The wisdom of birds: an illustrated history of ornithology.
Francis Willughby was born at Middleton Hall, Warwickshire, and is known for his Ornithologia libri tres in 1676 (the English edition, The Ornithology of Francis Willoughby.In three books wherein all the Birds hitherto known, was published two years later).Willughby’s book revolutionised ornithology in Europe.
3 de may. de 2013 · Francis Willughby, 1660, advice to a friend on looking after a caterpillar. Surprisingly little has been written about the polymath Francis Willughby (1635 to 1672), the author of one of the earliest comprehensive and analytical ornithologies. His work Ornithologia libri tres was published by his more famous friend and colleague John Ray (1627 ...
Francis Willughby (sometimes spelt Willoughby, Latin: Franciscus Willughbeius) FRS (22 November 1635 – 3 July 1672) was an English ornithologist and ichthyologist, and an early student of linguistics and games.
Francis Willughby and John Ray were at the forefront of the natural history of insects in the second half of the seventeenth century. Willughby in particular had a deep interest in insects' metamorphosis, behaviour and diversity, an interest that he passed on to his friend and mentor Ray. By examining Willughby's contributions to John Wilkins's ...
