Further Correspondence of John Ray
Further Correspondence of John Ray

Author: John Ray

Publisher:

Published: 1928

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13:

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"This book ... is the outcome of a rediscovery in the Bodleian library of a number of letters of John Ray ... which form a necessary supplement to the volume of The correspondence," edited by Edwin Lankester, 1848.

John Ray
John Ray

Author: Charles E. Raven

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1986-05-22

Total Pages: 538

ISBN-13: 9780521310833

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Charles Raven's biography of the seventeenth-century English naturalist John Ray is one of the great works in the history of science. The author's command of Latin (the language in which all Ray's biological works were written) and his enthusiasm for natural history enabled him to interpret superbly to the modern reader John Ray's remarkable scientific work and to rescue Ray's reputation from undeserved neglect. Raven reveals the unique influence Ray had on the development of modern science and in particular explains sympathetically the key role of Ray's last, most popular and most influential work, The Wisdom of God, which was the forerunner of the great 'Darwinian' controversies between science and religion in the nineteenth century.

The Correspondence of Dr. Martin Lister (1639-1712). Volume One: 1662-1677
The Correspondence of Dr. Martin Lister (1639-1712). Volume One: 1662-1677

Author: Anna Marie Roos

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-02-04

Total Pages: 966

ISBN-13: 9004263322

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Winner of the 2017 John Thackray Medal awarded by the Society for the History of Natural History, U.K. Martin Lister (1639–1712) was a consummate virtuoso, the first arachnologist and conchologist, and a Royal physician. As one of the most prominent corresponding fellows of the Royal Society, many of Lister’s discoveries in natural history, archaeology, medicine, and chemistry were printed in the Philosophical Transactions. Lister corresponded extensively with explorers and other virtuosi such as John Ray, who provided him with specimens, observations, and locality records from Jamaica, America, Barbados, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and his native England. This volume of ca. 400 letters (one of three), consists of Lister’s correspondence dated from 1662 to 1677, including his time as a Cambridge Fellow, his medical training in Montpellier, and his years as a practicing physician in York.

Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby FRS (1635-1672)
Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby FRS (1635-1672)

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-05-03

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 9004285326

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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 subsequently eclipsed that of Willughby. Now, with access to previously unexplored archives and new discoveries we are able to provide a comprehensive evaluation of Francis Willughby’s life and works. What emerges is a polymath, a true virtuoso, who made original and imaginative contributions to mathematics, chemistry, linguistics as well as natural history. We use Willughby’s short life as a lens through which to view the entire process of seventeenth-century scientific endeavor. Contributors are Tim Birkhead, Isabelle Charmantier, David Cram, Meghan Doherty, Mark Greengrass, Daisy Hildyard, Dorothy Johnston, Sachiko Kusukawa, Brian Ogilvie, William Poole, Chris Preston, Anna Marie Roos, Richard Serjeantson, Paul J. Smith and Benjamin Wardhaugh.

Reflections of Osiris
Reflections of Osiris

Author: John Ray

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 0195158717

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A portrait of ancient Egypyt that evokes the flavor of life in that time through profiles of eleven actual people and the god Osiris.

The Meaning of Fossils
The Meaning of Fossils

Author: Martin J.S. Rudwick

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2008-07-15

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 022614898X

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"It is not often that a work can literally rewrite a person's view of a subject. And this is exactly what Rudwick's book should do for many paleontologists' view of the history of their own field."—Stephen J. Gould, Paleobotany and Palynology "Rudwick has not merely written the first book-length history of palaeontology in the English language; he has written a very intelligent one. . . . His accounts of sources are rounded and organic: he treats the structure of arguments as Cuvier handled fossil bones."—Roy S. Porter, History of Science