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William Turner (1509/10 – 13 July 1568) [1] was an English divine and reformer, a physician and a natural historian. He has been called “the father of English botany ”. [ 2 ] He studied medicine in Italy, and was a friend of the great Swiss naturalist, Conrad Gessner .
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William Turner (naturalist) (c. 1508–1568), English ornithologist and botanist; dean of Wells Cathedral William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (1843–1928), British botanist W. E. S. Turner (William Ernest Stephen Turner, 1881–1963), English chemist and glass technologist
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The archetypical parson-naturalist was a priest in the Church of England in charge of a country parish, who saw the study of science as an extension of his religious work. The philosophy entailed the belief that God, as the Creator of all things, wanted man to understand his Creations and thus to study them through scientific techniques . [ 1 ]
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The English name "bramlyng" (Bram "loud" + lyng "lung") was used in 1544 by the English naturalist William Turner but later in the 16th century the current spelling "brambling" was used. [5] [6] [7] The etymology of the name is uncertain as the bird is not associated with the bramble or common blackberry Rubus fruticosus. [8]