Foreword by Michael Willoughby, Lord Middleton xi
Preface xii
Acknowledgements xvi
List of Figures and Maps xix
List of Abbreviations xxiii
List of Contributors xxiv
1. The Life and Domestic Context of Francis Willughby 1
Dorothy Johnston
2. The Education of Francis Willughby 44
Richard Serjeantson
3. The Chymistry of Francis Willughby (1635–72): The Trinity
College, Cambridge Community 99
Anna Marie Roos
4. Willughby’s Mathematics 122
Benjamin Wardhaugh
5 Science on the Move: Francis Willughby’s Expeditions 142
Mark Greengrass, Daisy Hildyard, Christopher D. Preston, and Paul
J. Smith
6 The Willughby Library in the Time of Francis the Naturalist
227
William Poole
7. Francis Willughby and John Ray on Words and Things 244
David Cram
8. Willughby’s Ornithology 268
Tim R. Birkhead, Paul J. Smith, Meghan Doherty, and Isabelle
Charmantier
9. Historia Piscium (1686) and Its Sources 305
Sachiko Kusukawa
10. Willughby on Insects 335
Brian W. Ogilvie
11. The Legacies of Francis Willughby 360
Isabelle Charmantier, Dorothy Johnston, and Paul J. Smith
Bibliography 387
Index 419
Tim Birkhead, (D.Phil 1976) is Professor of Evolutionary Biology at
the University of Sheffield; his scientific research focuses on
promiscuity in birds; his history of science books include The
Wisdom of Birds and Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology since
Darwin.
Isabelle Charmantier, (PhD 2008), The Linnean Society of London, is
Manuscript specialist, currently cataloguing the Linnaean
manuscripts. She has published on early modern natural history and
is completing a monograph A Naturalist at Work. Carl Linnaeus's
Writing Technologies (2015).
David Cram is an Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. His
publications have focussed on the history of ideas about language
in the seventeenth century, and include studies of the work of
George Dalgarno, John Wallis and Francis Willughby.
Meghan C. Doherty, (Ph.D. 2010), University of Wisconsin-Madison,
is an Assistant Professor of Art History and Director/Curator of
the Doris Ulmann Galleries at Berea College (KY). Her published
works consider the visual culture of the early Royal Society.
Mark Greengrass, MA, DPhil, FRHistS, FSA is Professor Emeritus of
Sheffield University and Associate Fellow of the Centre Roland
Mousnier, University of Paris-IV. He has published extensively on
early-modern European history, specialising in the history of
France.
Daisy Hildyard, (PhD 2013), University of London, has published on
early Royal Society manuscripts, including ‘John Pell’s
Mathematical Papers and the Royal Society’s English Atlas, 1678-82’
in the Bulletin for the British Society for the History of
Mathematics.
Dorothy Johnston, (Ph.D. 1977), Trinity College Dublin, was Keeper
of Manuscripts at the University of Nottingham, 1987-2012. Her
publications on history and archives include Francis Willughby's
Book of Games, edited with D. Cram and J. Forgeng (Ashgate,
2003).
Sachiko Kusukawa (PhD 1991), Fellow in History and Philosophy of
Science, Trinity College, Cambridge and author of Picturing the
book of nature: image, text and argument in sixteenth-century human
anatomy and medical botany (Chicago 2012).
Brian W. Ogilvie, (Ph.D. 1997), University of Chicago, is Associate
Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
His publications include The Science of Describing: Natural History
in Renaissance Europe (Chicago, 2006).
William Poole is Galsworthy Fellow and Tutor in English, and also
Fellow Librarian, of New College, Oxford. He has published widely
on early-modern intellectual, literary, and scientific history, and
is co-editor of the bibliographical journal The Library.
Christopher D. Preston, Sc.D., worked at the UK Biological Records
Centre until his recent retirement, mapping the changing
distributions of British and Irish flowering plants and bryophytes.
With Philip Oswald, he wrote John Ray’s Cambridge Catalogue (1660)
(Ray Society, 2011).
Anna Marie Roos, (Ph.D. 1997), University of Lincoln. Fellow of the
Linnean Society and Society of Antiquaries, she has three
monographs on the early modern history of science and medicine,
including Web of Nature: Martin Lister (1639-1712), the First
Arachnologist (Brill, 2011).
Richard Serjeantson (PhD 1998, Cambridge) Fellow and Lecturer in
history Trinity College, Cambridge. Research includes British and
European history between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment,
Thomas More’s Utopia and the philosophical development of René
Descartes.
Paul J. Smith (PhD 1985 Leiden University), Professor of French
literature at Leiden, has published widely on early modern French
literature and natural history and recently co-edited Zoology in
Early Modern Culture (Brill 2014).
Benjamin Wardhaugh, D.Phil. (2007), University of Oxford, is a
fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He works on the history of
early modern mathematics, and is the author of several books
including How to Read Historical Mathematics (Princeton, 2010).
[this] ]volume [...] provides us with an exemplary view of a figure
[of Francis Willughby] whose wide-ranging significance is at last
becoming clear.
- Michael Hunter, Birkbeck, University of London, EHR, CXXXIII.
564, October. 2018, 1314-1316, doi:10.1093/ehr/cey215
It [the work] is a very worthy validation of a neglected and
misunderstood scientist.
- William Noblett, Archives of Natural History 45.1 (2018): pp.
184-185 (DOI: 10.3366/anh.2018.0503)
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