The Wonderful Mr Willughby: The First True Ornithologist and during the 1930s he

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Mary Cornish

the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California

objectivity

The Wonderful Mr Willughby: The First True Ornithologist and during the 1930s heFrom 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