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Martin Lister FRS (12 April 1639 – 2 February 1712) was an English naturalist and physician. His daughters Anne and Susanna were two of his illustrators and engravers.
Martin Lister (Buckingham, 1639 – 2 de febrero de 1712) fue médico ordinario de Ana, reina de Inglaterra, y aunque famoso en el arte de curar, no pudo detener el curso de la enfermedad que le condujo a la muerte a principios del siglo XVIII.
12 de jul. de 2011 · This first full-length biography of Dr. Martin Lister (1639-1712), vice-president of the Royal Society, Royal Physician, and the first arachnologist and conchologist, provides an unprecedented...
Dr Martin Lister is sometimes known as the spider man because he was the first person to describe systematically the species of British spider and study their habits and anatomy. He was the first to realise how some spiders disperse by ballooning, using finely-spun silk to catch the wind.But there is much more to Martin Lister than a naturalist ...
In Anna Marie Roos's extensively researched biography of Lister, Web of nature: Martin Lister (1639–1712), the first arachnologist, the author shows that Lister's interests and activities extended far beyond shells and spiders.
Martin Lister FRS (12 April 1639 - 2 February 1712) was an English naturalist and physician. Life Lister's mother, Susan (or Susanna) Temple, later Lady Lister (1620), by Cornelius Johnson.
In 1683 the zoologist Martin Lister proposed to the Royal Society that a new sort of map be drawn showing the areal distribution of the different kinds of British “soiles” (vegetable soils and underlying bedrock). The work proposed by Lister was not accomplished until 132 years later, when William…. Read More.
