Edward Edward Wotton

Edward Edward Wotton

Edward Edward Wotton (1492-1552) was an English physician credited with starting the modern study of zoology, by separating out much of the fanciful and folkloric additions that had been added over time to the body of zoological knowledge.
*Gesner was partly responsible for " Insectorum, sive, Minimorum animalium theatrum" or "Theatre of Insects", This work was written jointly by Conrad Gesner (posthumously), Edward Wotton, Thomas Muffet and Thomas Penny

External links

* [http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/libraries/rare/modernity/moffett.html Theatre of Insects]
* [http://dz-srv1.sub.uni-goettingen.de/cache/toc/D254938.html Online version of Insectorvm Sive Minimorum Animalivm Theatrvm from GDZ]


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