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Francis Willughby (sometimes spelt Willoughby, Latin: Franciscus Willughbeius) [a] FRS (22 November 1635 – 3 July 1672) was an English ornithologist, ichthyologist and mathematician, and an early student of linguistics and games. He was born and raised at Middleton Hall, Warwickshire, the only son of an affluent country family.
Francis Willughby began work on De Historia Piscium in 1663. Willughby and Ray travelled together on a tour of Europe to study the natural world prior to the beginning of the production of the book. [2] The book was completed by John Ray after Willughby's death in 1672. [2]
Reviewers were generally enthusiastic in praising the biography. [1] [9] [6] [18] [19] The Wonderful Mr Willughby was acclaimed as well-written and beautifully illustrated.[1] [20] The favourable review in The Christian Science Monitor cautions that Birkhead sometimes uses terms, such as "hemipene" and "cloaca", without defining or clarifying the terms for readers unfamiliar with ornithology.
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Francis Willughby's Book of Games is a book published in 2003 that printed for the first time a transcription of a seventeenth-century manuscript written by Francis Willughby that was held in the library of the University of Nottingham.
The Black Hole of Calcutta was a dungeon in Fort William, Calcutta, measuring 14 by 18 feet (4.3 m × 5.5 m), in which troops of Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, held British prisoners of war on the night of 20 June 1756.
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