A royal physician and fellow of the Royal Society, Martin Lister was an extraordinarily prolific natural historian with an expertise in shells and mollusks. Disappointed with the work of established a
Natural philosopher and empiricist Lister was the first arachnologist and conchologist, a prominent fellow of the Royal Society, a Royal Physician to Queen Anne, a major benefactor of the Ashmolean Mu
This volume examines the life and work of Martin Lister, a pioneering seventeenth century English naturalist and the father of arachnology, the study of spiders. The biography follows Lister through s
The sun and the moon, or the "luminaries," were a motif that ran through late medieval and early modern English culture. Roos (history, U. of Minnesota) examines depictions of the luminaries as a way
A collection of essays by an international team of scholars, Archival Afterlives explores the posthumous fortunes of scientific and medical archives in early modern Britain. It demonstrates the sustai
