The Wonderful MR Willughby: The First True Ornithologist

by Tim Birkhead

Book Overview

From 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1408878488
• ISBN13: 9781408878484
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"