Birkhead, Tim R. (Author)
From the author of Bird Sense, a biography of Francis Willughby, the man who pulled the study of birds out of the dark ages and formed the foundations of modern ornithology. Francis Willughby lived and thrived in the midst of the rapidly accelerating scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. Traveling with his Cambridge tutor John Ray, they decided to overhaul the whole of natural history by imposing order on its messiness and complexity. It was exhilarating, exacting, and exhausting work. Yet before their first book, Ornithology, could be completed, Willughby died in 1672. Since then, Ray's reputation has grown, obscuring that of his collaborator. Now, for the first time, Willughby's story and genius are given the attention they deserve.In his too-short life, Francis Willughby helped found the Royal Society, differentiated birds through identification of their distinguishing features, and asked questions that were, in some cases, centuries ahead of their time. His discoveries and his approach to his work continue to be relevant--and revelatory--oday. Tim Birkhead describes and celebrates how Willughby's endeavors set a standard for the way birds--and indeed the whole of natural history--should be studied. Rich with glorious detail, The Wonderful Mr Willughby is at once a fascinating insight into a thrilling period of scientific history and an authoritative, lively biography of one of its legendary pioneers.
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Meghan Doherty;
Isabelle Charmantier;
Paul J. Smith;
Tim R. Birkhead;
(2016)
Willughby’s Ornithology
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Isabelle Charmantier;
Paul J. Smith;
Dorothy Johnston;
(2016)
The Legacies of Francis Willughby
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T. R. Birkhead;
I. Charmantier;
P. J. Smith;
R. Montgomerie;
(2018)
Willughby's Buzzard: Names and Misnomers of the European Honey-Buzzard (Pernis Apivorus)
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Dorothy Johnston;
(2016)
The Life and Domestic Context of Francis Willughby
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Richard Serjeantson;
(2016)
The Education of Francis Willughby
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Benjamin Wardhaugh;
(2016)
Willughby’s Mathematics
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Deniz Martinez;
(2023)
The ornithology of Agnes Block (1629–1704): Dutch naturalist, artist, collector and patron
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Tim Birkhead;
(2016)
Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby FRS (1635-1672)
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Brian W. Ogilvie;
(2016)
Willughby on Insects
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David Cram;
(2016)
Francis Willughby and John Ray on Words and Things
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Doherty, Meghan C.;
(2010)
Carving Knowledge: Printed Images, Accuracy, and the Early Royal Society of London
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Sachiko Kusukawa;
(2016)
Historia Piscium (1686) and Its Sources
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Ogilvie, Brian W.;
(2012)
Attending to Insects: Francis Willughby and John Ray
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Roos, Anna Marie Eleanor;
(2016)
The Chymistry of Francis Willughby (1635–72): The Trinity College, Cambridge Community
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Christopher D. Preston;
Daisy Hildyard;
Paul J. Smith;
Mark Greengrass;
(2016)
Science on the Move: Francis Willughby’s Expeditions
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Grindle, Nick;
(2005)
“No Other Sign or Note Than the Very Order”: Francis Willughby, John Ray and the Importance of Collecting Pictures
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(2020)
Fresh Fish: Observation up Close in Late Seventeenth-Century England
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Jeremy J. D. Greenwood;
(2020)
Emma Turner: A Life Looking at Birds
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(2012)
John Latham: Surgeon, Ornithologist and Antiquary: Romsey's First Historian
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Kolchinskii, Eduard I.;
(2006)
Ernst Mayr i sovremennyi evoliutzionnyi sintez. Serija: Vydajuscthijesja biologi-evoliutzionisty
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