biography
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| (1627–1705)
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| biography:
| Naturalist, born in Black Notley, Essex, SE England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, where he became a fellow of Trinity College (1649), but lost his post at the Restoration for religious reasons. With a pupil, Francis Willoughby (1635–72), he travelled widely in Europe studying botany and zoology. His classification of plants, with its emphasis on the species as the basic unit, was the foundation of modern taxonomy, his major work being the three-volume Historia Plantarum (1686–1704). |
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