Edward Wotton , out of date. Edward Wotton ( English Edward Wotton , Latin Edoardus Vuottonus Oxoniensis , 1492 - October 5, 1555) is an English physician and naturalist , one of the founders of biological systematics as applied to zoology . The most famous for his work is De differentiis animalium (1552), which became the first comprehensive zoological treatise since Aristotle .
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Biography
Born in Oxford , in the parish of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in the family of Richard Wotton , senior superintendent of the theological faculty of Oxford University, and his wife Margaret . Edward received his schooling at the Oxford-based . In 1514 he received a bachelor's degree at . In 1525, taking advantage of the patronage of Bishop , he was sent from Oxford College Corpus Christi to continue his education in Italy, including to study the Greek language . In Italy, he lived mostly in Padua , received a doctorate in medicine from the University of Padua . After returning to England, he taught Greek at Oxford. February 8, 1528 became a member of the Royal College of Physicians (he was president of the college in 1541-1543), practiced medicine in London , among his patients were Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk and Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury .
He died in London on October 5, 1555.
Contribution to Science
Since childhood, Wotton was interested in entomology and zoology in general, he became the first English scientist to systematically study natural history. In 1552, his 10-volume work De differentiis animalium [libri decem] ("On the Difference of Animals [in Ten Books]", 1552) was published in Paris , in which Wotton attempted to systematically classify the entire known animal kingdom. The work is a review of ancient writings on zoological topics with Watter's comments. His important merit was the refusal to describe in his work various folklore or invented creatures that were present in a large number in the works of his predecessors. The material in his work, Wotton sets out in the order that Aristotle used: the first three volumes give general characteristics of animals , the following volumes give particular characteristics that begin with a person , then continue with four-legged animals , then squids , crustaceans and mollusks .
Wotton also collected materials on the history of the study of insects; these materials were included in the work of the Insectorum sive Minimorum Animalium Theatrum (“Insectorum, or Insect Theater”) - an illustrated guide to the classification and life of insects, which was published almost 80 years after his death, in 1634, edited by another English doctor and the naturalist, .
Bibliography
- De differentiis animalium libri decem on Google Books
- Insectorum sive Minimorum Animalium Theatrum on Google Books
Links
- Pollard, AF; Wallis, P. Wotton, Edward (1492-1555 ) . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press (2004). doi : 10.1093 / ref: odnb / 29999 . Date of treatment February 16, 2017.