...) to conclusively establish the taxonomic identity of Seba's elephant foetus as an African rather than an Asian elephant. Second, in examining John Ray's (1693) text cited by Linnaeus, reporting the description of an elephant skeleton, we found archival evidence indicating that this specimen still exists today...

...: Robert Boyle, John Ray, and Isaac Newton. Robert Boyle (1627–1691) was the founder of modern chemistry, the first to base chemistry on atomism—or the corpuscular philosophy, as it was called in his time. He was also a devout Christian, having experienced in his youth a religious conversion during...

...In which natural history leaves behind its medieval phase and becomes a modern science. John Ray develops a more systemic taxonomy using trinomial Latin descriptions of plants and animals, a system later modified and improved by Linnaeus. The lives and travels of both Ray and Linnaeus are discussed...

... of the objects for which they stood, simply representing the world as it appeared to the senses. This chapter shows, by contrast, that naturalists such as John Ray saw their written style as a form of "verbal picturing" or enargeia, capable of provoking the same bodily and affective pleasures long associated...

... Hawkesdale Nicolson Joseph Percy Thomas Shakespeare William Somerset Staffordshire Warwickshire Aberdeen Chaucer Geoffrey fossils Kennett White Mackay Hugh Scotland Urry John Charlett Arthur English Dialect Dictionary Gibson Edmund Hickes George Scots John Ray English proverbs dialect...

...This chapter examines three examples of non‐reductionist natural philosophy, something supported, at a philosophical level, by Locke's anti‐reductionist approach. The first is John Ray's rejection of the ideas that there is a single basis for botanical classification. The second is Stephen Gray's...

..., decline, and ultimate revival of natural history within the realms of science and public discourse. The account is focused on the lives and contributions of an eclectic group of men and women, from John Ray, John Muir, Charles Darwin, and Rachel Carson, who endured remarkable hardships and privations...

... they feel they were part of an intellectual and cultural movement? Some did, others probably did not, but nonetheless can be seen as unwitting contributors to it, such as for example English initiators of the movement of physico-theology, Robert Boyle (1666 91) or John Ray (1627 1705), and others. The major...

...This chapter reassesses the relationship between physico-theology—the main body of works in which philosophers such as Robert Boyle, Nehemiah Grew, and John Ray advanced claims about how nature should be experienced—and their empirical approach to the study of nature. For the most part, physico...

...This chapter examines the challenge of collective note-taking in the service of collaborative projects, such as those of John Ray and Martin Lister on the description and classification of plants and animals. It considers the influence of Francis Bacon's Sylva Sylvarum as a model...

...The first publication of the English naturalist and theologian John Ray was a contribution to the natural history of a particular location. His attention to the local, however, was also directed towards language: he and his friends Francis Willughby and Philip Skippon collected wordlists of Arabic...

... Milton Paradise Lost physico-theology James Thomson The Seasons William Derham John Ray Henry More sympathy ecology Soon as th’ unwelcome news From Earth arriv’d at Heaven Gate, displeas’d All were who heard, dim sadness did not spare That time Celestial visages, yet mixt With pitie...

... in Chapter 1, this succeeding chapter looks at the role of bestsellers, e.g. by John Ray, William Derham, Bernard Nieuwentijt, and translations of their works, as well as of works of Robert Boyle, John Woodward, and Friedrich Christian Lesser, into other European languages sustaining the growth...

... positions himself squarely in the species-fixist camp, like his contemporary John Ray, the English naturalist who insists that “the number of true species in nature is fixed and limited and, as we may reasonably believe, constant and unchangeable from the first creation to the present day.” Leibniz, like...

... this interpretation, showing that key figures such as John Ray, Robert Boyle, Nehemiah Grew, Robert Hooke, and Thomas Willis saw the study of nature as an aesthetic project. Seeking to obtain knowledge of the natural world through their senses, they practiced a science that depended on harnessing the embodied...

... and cross-cultural scope of physico-theology in introducing authors from Britain, the Netherlands, France, Germany, and Swedish Finland. It points to the pivotal role of John Ray’s works for the deployment of physico-theology in Britain and on the continent, but also makes clear that our grasp must reach...

... zoophyton word Giseke Paul Dietrich 1741–1796 Nieremberg y Otin Juan Eusebio 1595–1658 hierarchical classification natural theology Pierre Magnol Joseph Pitton de Tournefort John Ray Linnæus Otto von Münchhausen Michel Adanson Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu O Lord, how manifold are your works...