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Francis Willughby (sometimes
spelt Willoughby, Latin:
Franciscus Willughbeius) FRS (22
November 1635 – 3 July 1672) was an
English ornithologist, ichthyologist...
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Percivall Willughby (1596 – 1685) was an
English physician and
writer on obstetrics.
Percivall Willughby was
sixth son of Sir
Percivall Willughby, of Wollaton...
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Francis Willughby's Book of
Games is a book
published in 2003 that
printed for the
first time a
transcription of a seventeenth-century m****cript written...
- The
Wonderful Mr
Willughby: The
First True
Ornithologist is a 2018 biography,
written by Tim Birkhead,
about Francis Willughby (1635–1672), an English...
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thought to
derive from the
Italian (Ferrarese) word avosetta.
Francis Willughby in 1678
noted it as the "Avosetta of the Italians".
Avocets have long...
- The
earliest and only
comprehensive set of
rules appeared in 1672 by
Willughby. However,
Cotton gives an
overview in The
Compleat Gamester of 1674, an...
- industry. The
first classification of
birds was
developed by
Francis Willughby and John Ray in
their 1676
volume Ornithologiae. Carl
Linnaeus modified...
- for 'Of the
History of Fish') is a
scientific book
written by
Francis Willughby and John Ray and
published by the
Royal Society in 1686. The book was...
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indigenous to the
Brazilian coastline. In 1686, John Ray and
Francis Willughby collaboratively published Historia Piscium, a
scientific m****cript containing...
- Ray's student,
Isaac Barrow,
helped Francis Willughby learn mathematics and Ray
collaborated with
Willughby later. It was at
Trinity that he came under...
