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TURNER, William (1508 – 1568)

TURNER, William (1508 – 1568)

1508 – 1568

5 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source William Turner (1508-1568) · brynmawr.edu · Public domain

1538 CE

#1805

Libellus de re herbaria novus.

An alphabetical catalogue of plants and medicines made from them. Turner, the “Father of English Botany”, treated plants as simples, and did not attempt to show their relationships. He was a much travelled…

1544 CE

#277

Avium praecipuarum, quarum apud Plinium et Aristotelem mentio est, brevis et succincta historia.

The first book on birds with clear descriptions of the appearance of individual birds based on the author’s own experiences and observations. Turner attempted to determine those birds named by Aristotle and Plin…

1548 CE

#1810.2

The names of herbes in Greke, Latin, English, Duche & Frenche wyth the commune names that herbaries and apotecaries use.

A much-expanded English translation of Turner’s Libellus (No. 1805). That and the above work mark the beginning of scientific botany in England. They contain the first records of the occurrence of some 238 speci…

1551 CE–1568 CE

#1811

A new herball. 3 vols.

The first original scientific herbal written by an Englishman, and the first scientific herbal published in the English language. The illustrations were taken from the blocks cut for the 8vo edition of Fuchs (1546). T…

1903 CE

#9100

Turner on birds; a short and succinct history of the principal birds noticed by Pliny and Aristotle, first published by Doctor William Turner, 1544. Edited, with introduction, translation, notes, and appendix by A. H. Evans.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.