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77 relations: Act of Uniformity 1662, Adaptation, Alfred Newton, Ammonoidea, Biodiversity Heritage Library, Black Notley, Blacksmith, Bodleian Library, Botany, Braintree, Essex, British Library, Cambridge University Press, Carl Linnaeus, Charitable organization, Charles II of England, Christian state, Church of England, Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge, Cryptogam, Dendrochronology, Dicotyledon, Edward Lhuyd, England, Epistle to the Colossians, Essex, Europe, Faulkbourne, Fellow of the Royal Society, Formic acid, Francis Willughby, Fraxinus, Geoffrey Keynes, George Lewis Scott, Herbaceous plant, Holy orders, Isaac Barrow, Isaac Newton, James Duncan (zoologist), James Duport, James Petiver, John Rylands Library, Launton, Martin Lister, Middleton Hall, Monocotyledon, Montpellier, Nathaniel Bacon (Virginia colonist and rebel), Natural history, Natural History Museum, London, Natural theology, ..., Nicolas Steno, Nonconformist, Oxford University Press, Parson-naturalist, Penal law (British), Philip Skippon (1641–1691), Praelector, Ray Society, Robert Hooke, Royal Society, Samuel Pepys, Solemn League and Covenant, Spain, Species, Spermatophyte, St Catharine's College, Cambridge, Tamworth, Staffordshire, Taxonomy (biology), Text publication society, Tobias Smollett, Tree, Trinity College, Cambridge, University of Cambridge, William Derham, William Paley, William T. Stearn, Zoology. Expand index (27 more) »
Act of Uniformity 1662
The Act of Uniformity 1662 (14 Car 2 c 4) is an Act of the Parliament of England.
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Adaptation
In biology, adaptation has three related meanings.
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Alfred Newton
Alfred Newton FRS HFRSE (11 June 18297 June 1907) was an English zoologist and ornithologist.
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Ammonoidea
Ammonoids are an extinct group of marine mollusc animals in the subclass Ammonoidea of the class Cephalopoda.
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Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.” The BHL consortium works with the international taxonomic community, rights holders, and other interested parties to ensure that this biodiversity heritage is made available to a global audience through open access principles.
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Black Notley
Black Notley is a village and civil parish in Essex, England.
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Blacksmith
A blacksmith is a metalsmith who creates objects from wrought iron or steel by forging the metal, using tools to hammer, bend, and cut (cf. whitesmith).
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Bodleian Library
The Bodleian Library is the main research library of the University of Oxford, and is one of the oldest libraries in Europe.
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Botany
Botany, also called plant science(s), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.
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Braintree, Essex
Braintree is a town in Essex, England.
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British Library
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and the largest national library in the world by number of items catalogued.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.
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Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von LinnéBlunt (2004), p. 171.
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Charitable organization
A charitable organization or charity is a non-profit organization (NPO) whose primary objectives are philanthropy and social well-being (e.g. charitable, educational, religious, or other activities serving the public interest or common good).
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Charles II of England
Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was king of England, Scotland and Ireland.
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Christian state
A Christian state is a country that recognizes a form of Christianity as its official religion and often has a state church, which is a Christian denomination that supports the government and is supported by the government.
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Church of England
The Church of England (C of E) is the state church of England.
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Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge
St Mary the Great is a Church of England parish and university church at the north end of King's Parade in central Cambridge, England.
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Cryptogam
A cryptogam (scientific name Cryptogamae) is a plant (in the wide sense of the word) that reproduces by spores, without flowers or seeds.
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Dendrochronology
Dendrochronology (or tree-ring dating) is the scientific method of dating tree rings (also called growth rings) to the exact year they were formed in order to analyze atmospheric conditions during different periods in history.
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Dicotyledon
The dicotyledons, also known as dicots (or more rarely dicotyls), are one of the two groups into which all the flowering plants or angiosperms were formerly divided.
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Edward Lhuyd
Edward Lhuyd (occasionally written as Llwyd in recent times, in accordance with Modern Welsh orthography) (1660 – 30 June 1709) was a Welsh naturalist, botanist, linguist, geographer and antiquary.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Epistle to the Colossians
The Epistle of Paul to the Colossians, usually referred to simply as Colossians, is the twelfth book of the New Testament.
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Essex
Essex is a county in the East of England.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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Faulkbourne
Faulkbourne is a civil parish in the Braintree district of Essex, about 2 miles (3 km) north-west of Witham.
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Fellow of the Royal Society
Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society judges to have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science".
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Formic acid
Formic acid, systematically named methanoic acid, is the simplest carboxylic acid.
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Francis Willughby
Francis Willughby (sometimes spelt Willoughby) (22 November 1635 – 3 July 1672) was an English ornithologist and ichthyologist.
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Fraxinus
Fraxinus, English name ash, is a genus of flowering plants in the olive and lilac family, Oleaceae.
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Geoffrey Keynes
Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes (25 March 1887, Cambridge – 5 July 1982, Cambridge) was an English surgeon and author.
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George Lewis Scott
George Lewis Scott (1708–1780) was an English royal tutor, encyclopedist, and dilettante.
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Herbaceous plant
Herbaceous plants (in botanical use frequently simply herbs) are plants that have no persistent woody stem above ground.
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Holy orders
In the Christian churches, Holy Orders are ordained ministries such as bishop, priest or deacon.
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Isaac Barrow
Isaac Barrow (October 1630 – 4 May 1677) was an English Christian theologian and mathematician who is generally given credit for his early role in the development of infinitesimal calculus; in particular, for the discovery of the fundamental theorem of calculus.
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Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English mathematician, astronomer, theologian, author and physicist (described in his own day as a "natural philosopher") who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time, and a key figure in the scientific revolution.
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James Duncan (zoologist)
James Duncan (1804–1861) was a Scottish naturalist.
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James Duport
James Duport (1606, Cambridge17 July 1679, Peterborough) was an English classical scholar.
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James Petiver
James Petiver (c. 1665 – c. 2 April 1718) was a London apothecary, a fellow of the Royal Society as well as London's informal Temple Coffee House Botany Club, famous for his specimen collections in which he traded and study of botany and entomology.
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John Rylands Library
The John Rylands Library is a late-Victorian neo-Gothic building on Deansgate in Manchester, England.
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Launton
Launton is a village and civil parish on the eastern outskirts of Bicester, Oxfordshire, England.
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Martin Lister
Martin Lister FRS (12 April 1639 – 2 February 1712) was an English naturalist and physician.
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Middleton Hall
Middleton Hall is a Grade II* listed building dating back to medieval times.
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Monocotyledon
Monocotyledons, commonly referred to as monocots, (Lilianae sensu Chase & Reveal) are flowering plants (angiosperms) whose seeds typically contain only one embryonic leaf, or cotyledon.
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Montpellier
Montpellier (Montpelhièr) is a city in southern France.
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Nathaniel Bacon (Virginia colonist and rebel)
Nathaniel Bacon (January 2, 1647 – October 26, 1676) was a colonist of the Virginia Colony, famous as the instigator of Bacon's Rebellion of 1676, which collapsed when Bacon himself died from dysentery.
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Natural history
Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms including animals, fungi and plants in their environment; leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.
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Natural History Museum, London
The Natural History Museum in London is a natural history museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history.
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Natural theology
Natural theology, once also termed physico-theology, is a type of theology that provides arguments for the existence of God based on reason and ordinary experience of nature.
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Nicolas Steno
Nicolas Steno (Niels Steensen; Latinized to Nicolaus Stenonis or Nicolaus Stenonius; 1 January 1638 – 25 November 1686 – Aber, James S. 2007. Retrieved 11 January 2012.) was a Danish scientist, a pioneer in both anatomy and geology who became a Catholic bishop in his later years.
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Nonconformist
In English church history, a nonconformist was a Protestant who did not "conform" to the governance and usages of the established Church of England.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.
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Parson-naturalist
A parson-naturalist was a cleric (a "parson", strictly defined as a country priest who held the living of a parish, but the term is generally extended to other clergy), who often saw the study of natural science as an extension of his religious work.
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Penal law (British)
In English history, penal law refers to a specific series of laws that sought to uphold the establishment of the Church of England against Protestant nonconformists and Catholicism, by imposing various forfeitures, civil penalties, and civil disabilities upon these dissenters.
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Philip Skippon (1641–1691)
Philip Skippon, FRS (28 October 1641 – 7 August 1691) was an English naturalist and MP.
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Praelector
A praelector is a traditional role at the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford.
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Ray Society
The Ray Society is a scientific text publication society that publishes works devoted principally to British flora and fauna.
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Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke FRS (– 3 March 1703) was an English natural philosopher, architect and polymath.
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Royal Society
The President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, commonly known as the Royal Society, is a learned society.
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Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an administrator of the navy of England and Member of Parliament who is most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man.
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Solemn League and Covenant
The Solemn League and Covenant was an agreement between the Scottish Covenanters and the leaders of the English Parliamentarians in 1643 during the First English Civil War.
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Spain
Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.
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Species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.
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Spermatophyte
The spermatophytes, also known as phanerogams or phenogamae, comprise those plants that produce seeds, hence the alternative name seed plants.
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St Catharine's College, Cambridge
St Catharine’s College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.
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Tamworth, Staffordshire
Tamworth is a large market town in Staffordshire, England, northeast of Birmingham and northwest of London.
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Taxonomy (biology)
Taxonomy is the science of defining and naming groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics.
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Text publication society
A text publication society is a learned society which publishes (either as its sole function, or as a principal function) scholarly editions of old works of historical or literary interest, or archival documents.
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Tobias Smollett
Tobias George Smollett (19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish poet and author.
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Tree
In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, supporting branches and leaves in most species.
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Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England.
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University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University)The corporate title of the university is The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.
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William Derham
William Derham FRS (26 November 1657 – 5 April 1735)Smolenaars, Marja.
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William Paley
William Paley (July 1743 – 25 May 1805) was an English clergyman, Christian apologist, philosopher, and utilitarian.
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William T. Stearn
William Thomas Stearn (16 April 1911 – 9 May 2001) was a British botanist.
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Zoology
Zoology or animal biology is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems.
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