Authority Cited: Ray
Author name and dates: John Ray (1627-1705)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cleric; naturalist; proto-scientist; first biological def. of species; scientific works in Latin; SJ quotes religious works
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Wimsatt also notes: "The short biography of Ray in Dr. James's Medicinal Dictionary, s.v. botany, Vol. i, p. 10DT is presumably the work of Johnson (ante p. 35, n. 21). Cf. his allusion to Ray on British insects (Life ii, 248)."
Author name and dates: John Ray (1627-1705)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cleric; naturalist; proto-scientist; first biological def. of species; scientific works in Latin; SJ quotes religious works
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note; see also A Proverb]
- Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of Creation: JOHN RAY, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation in two parts, Viz. The Heavenly Bodies, Elements, Meteors, Fossils, Vegetables, Animals, (beasts, Birds, Fishes, and Insects) more particularly in the Body of the Earth, its Figure, Motion, and Consistency, and in the admirable Structure of the Bodies of Man, and other Animals, as also in their Generation, &c. With answers to some objections. By John Ray, Late Fellow of the Royal Society, London : printed by J.B. for Benj. Walford, at the Prince's Arms in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 5th ed. London, 1709. 1st ed. 1691. Successively enlarged in editions of 1692, 1701, and 1704. (per Wimsatt, Philosophic Words, p. 157); [BKG Note: there appear to be about 700 words which cite Ray quotations in the 1st Dict. edition] decorous, knob; 4th Dict. edition additions (page numbers are referenced to the 1704 and 1709 editions of this work - the edition used by SJ was after 1696, because Ray quotes Cockburn Essays &c. , which was first issued in 1696)]: abscond, p. 337; argumentative, p. 126; curb, p. 231; escalop, p. 118; lapidist, p. 92 (1743 ed.).
Wimsatt also notes: "The short biography of Ray in Dr. James's Medicinal Dictionary, s.v. botany, Vol. i, p. 10DT is presumably the work of Johnson (ante p. 35, n. 21). Cf. his allusion to Ray on British insects (Life ii, 248)."
- Ray (no work cited)