Francis Willughby
✓ Source-basedrisingEnglish ornithologist and ichthyologist
ScientistsLived 1635 to 1672 · aged 36
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Francis Willughby FRS was an English ornithologist, ichthyologist and mathematician, and an early student of linguistics and games.
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Lady Cassandra Ridgeway, Willughby's mother
In South Wales, Willughby and Ray saw a rare black-winged stilt shown here in the Ornithologiae Libri Tres as "Himantopus".
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A room in the Palazzo Publico, Bologna, visited by Willughby's group to see the collections of Ferdinando Cospi and Ulisse Aldrovandi.
Willoughby memorial in Middleton church
Title page of Ornithologiae Libri TresIn their orbit 1
Scientists born in the 1630s 6
About this person
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1635 to 1672 · aged 36
Written about in
22 languages
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