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.
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John Ray was a seventeenth-century naturalist with the deepest respect for intellectual integrity, honest exploration of nature, and the role of theology and scientific endeavour. This superb 1942 biography reassesses the pivotal contributions of this brilliant but undervalued scientist and examines Ray's profound influence on the development of science.
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In these days when we all realise the importance of heredity and early environment in determining and in interpreting character, the student of John Ray will deplore more strongly than did any of his biographers our almost total ignorance of his parents and childhood. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Black Notley, Wisdom of God, Cambridge Catalogue, Historia Plantarum, John Ray, Life of Lhwyd, Early Science, Trinity College, History of Insects, Tancred Robinson, Collection of English Words, Philosophical Transactions, Real Character, Essex Naturalist, Alumni Cantab, Catharine Hall, Isle of Man, John Aubrey, Martin Lister, Synopsis Britannicarum, Synopsis Quadrupedum, Bishop Wilkins, Christ's College, Edward Browne, Francis Willughby New!
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In these days when we all realise the importance of heredity and early environment in determining and in interpreting character, the student of John Ray will deplore more strongly than did any of his biographers our almost total ignorance of his parents and childhood. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
historia piscium, specific distinctness, formed stones, fore wings, physic garden, botanical work, continental tour Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Black Notley, Wisdom of God, Cambridge Catalogue, Historia Plantarum, John Ray, Life of Lhwyd, Early Science, Trinity College, History of Insects, Tancred Robinson, Collection of English Words, Philosophical Transactions, Real Character, Essex Naturalist, Alumni Cantab, Catharine Hall, Isle of Man, John Aubrey, Martin Lister, Synopsis Britannicarum, Synopsis Quadrupedum, Bishop Wilkins, Christ's College, Edward Browne, Francis Willughby New!
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- Dictionary of National Biography: 3rd Supplement: 1912-1921 by H. W. C. Davis on page 18, page 67, and page 209
- The Description of England: The Classic Contemporary Account of Tudor Social Life by William Harrison on page 73, and Index
- Prelude to Chemistry by John Read on page 50, and page 135
- History of the Royal Society by Thomas Sprat on page 56
- Land's End (Coronet Books) by Peter Francis Browne in Front Matter
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