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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- and also a two-player
simplification of the
modern game of Blackjack.
Willughby records a game
called Hannikin Canst Abide It
which appears to be an English...
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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...
- 2006-08-05.
Wheately (1666), p. 70.
Willughby (c. 1660-1672),
entries for "Cards", "Tables", "Irish" and "Back Gammon."
Willughby (c. 1672)
Cotton (1674), pp...
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Ulisse Aldrovandi in 1599, and the
English ornithologist Francis Willughby in 1676.
Willughby listed the
English name as the "long tail'd titmouse". Its previous...
- Ray's student,
Isaac Barrow,
helped Francis Willughby learn mathematics and Ray
collaborated with
Willughby later. It was at
Trinity that he came under...
