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William Turner (1509/10 – 13 July 1568) [1] was an English divine and reformer, a physician and a natural historian. He has been called "The father of English botany ." [2] . He studied medicine in Italy, and was a friend of the great Swiss naturalist, Conrad Gessner.
Apr 12, 2024 · William Turner (born 1508?, Morpeth, Northumberland, Eng.—died July 7, 1568, London) was an English naturalist, botanist, and theologian known as the “father of English botany.” His A New Herball was the first English herbal to include original material. Turner studied at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge.
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Jul 13, 2020 · Scientist of the Day - William Turner. July 13, 2020. William Turner, an English cleric and naturalist, died July 13, 1568, at the approximate age of 60; his actual date of birth is unknown. In 1568, the first complete edition of Turner’s Herbal was published, with a title that is long but instructive: The first and seconde partes of the ...
The first printed bird book, The Principal Birds of Aristotle and Pliny, was published in 1544. Written by the English physician and naturalist William Turner, the book is noteworthy for its inclusion of Turner’s personal observations — a real innovation at a time when ancient authorities held the last word in science.
Studies in English. VOLUME XXXIII 1954. WILLIAM TURNER, NATURALIST AND PRIEST. By Thomas P. Harrison. As pioneer in botany and in ornithology William Turner (1508. 1568) stands alone in sixteenth-century England; and his importance in theological controversy is fully recognized by students of the Cam bridge School of Reformers.
Of all the radical Protestants who were dissatisfied with Henry VIII's reformation of the English church-now the Church of England-one of the most brilliant was William Turner (?-1568), physician, naturalist, Member of Parliament, Dean of Wells, and a founding Father of the Puritan Move- ment. It was during his second exile on the Continent in the reign of Mary that Turner published A nevv ...
Sep 8, 2018 · In 1790 he published in two volumes Historical and Biographical Sketches of the Progress of Botany in England, which is where I came across William Turner, M.A., naturalist and religious controversialist, as the ODNB has it.
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