William Turner was an English divine and reformer, a physician and a natural historian. He has been called "the father of English botany". He studied medicine in Italy, and was a friend of the great Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner.
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Illustration of mandrake from William Turner's Herbal, the first to be written in English rather than Latin
Title page of Libellus de Re Herbaria Novus, 1538
Preface of Libellus de Re Herbaria Novus with name Guilielmus Turnerus
Title page of Avium Praecipuarum, 1544, the first ever printed book devoted wholly to ornithologyDoctors born in the 1510s 6
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William Turner was an English divine and reformer, a physician and a natural historian. He has been called "the father of English botany". He studied medicine in Italy, and was a friend of the great Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner. He was an early herbalist and ornithologist, and it is in these fields that the most interest lies today. He is known as being one of the first "parson-naturalists" in England.
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