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    Thomas Muffet (also Moufet, Mouffet, or Moffet) (1553 – 5 June 1604) was an English naturalist and physician. He is best known his study of insects and...
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    "Little Miss Muffet" is an English nursery rhyme of uncertain origin, first recorded in 1805. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20605. The rhyme...
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    changed into a cow in Ovid's Metamorphoses. The physician and naturalist Thomas Muffet wrote that the horse-fly "carries before him a very hard, stiff, and...
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    history: it is first mentioned, along with a Shropshire cheese, by Thomas Muffet in Health's Improvement (c. 1580). There is an unsupported myth that...
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    by Conrad Gessner (posthumously), Edward Edward Wotton, Thomas Muffet, and Thomas Penny. Thomas was the son of John Penny or Penne of Eskrigg in Gressingham...
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    or Theatre of Insects, although this was not published (as edited by Thomas Muffet) until 1634. By favour of bishop Fox, he was made socius compar of Corpus...
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  • posthumously from the work of Edward Wotton, Conrad Gesner and Thomas Penny by Thomas Muffet and prepared for publication by Théodore de Mayerne. The Académie...
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  • Gougenot des Mousseaux (1805–1876, France, J) John Mott (1865–1965, US, R) Thomas Muffet (1553–1604, England, Nh/M) Mumtaz Mufti (1905–1995, British India/Pakistan...
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  • American baseball player Little Miss Muffet, a nursery rhyme Thomas Muffet (1553-1604), English naturalist and physician Muffet, a spider-like character from...
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    work on insects was edited by various authors, including Thomas Penny, until Thomas Muffet brought it to publication as Insectorum sive minimorum animalium...
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  • Rudolf Glauber, German-born chemical engineer (died 1670) 5 June – Thomas Muffet, English naturalist and physician (born 1553) before August – William...
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  • 1551 de Avibus, cum fig. illuminatus Epistolae Medicinales Zurich 1577 Thomas Muffet, De Insect cum fig, London 1634 Nosomantica Hippocratea, Frankfurt 1588...
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  • the five Cambridge Regius professors. Among his medical students was Thomas Muffet. From 1572 till 1585 he was rector of Little Waltham in Essex. Lorkin...
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    1517) May 26 – Godfrey Goldsborough, English bishop (b. 1548) June 5 – Thomas Muffet, English naturalist and physician (b. 1553) June 10 – Isabella Andreini...
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  • 1517) May 26 – Godfrey Goldsborough, English bishop (b. 1548) June 5 – Thomas Muffet, English naturalist and physician (b. 1553) June 10 – Isabella Andreini...
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  • Sales Thomas Herbert – Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique Johannes Kepler (died 1630) – Somnium (written 1608) Thomas Muffet (died...
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    Insectorum sive Minimorum Animalium Theatrum, by Thomas Muffet with Edward Wotton, Conrad Gesner and Thomas Penny, is posthumously published, containing the...
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    Death in Diseases [by Prospero Alpini], 1746 Health's Improvement [by Thomas Muffet], 1746 A Treatise on Tobacco, Tea, Coffee and Chocolate [by Simon Paulli]...
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    the first treatises ever published on Insects (usually attributed to Thomas Muffet), under the title Insectorum, sive minimorum animalium Theatrum: Olim...
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  • Neuroptera Victor Ivanovich Motschulsky 1810 1871 Russia Coleoptera Thomas Muffet 1552 1604 United Kingdom Johann Carl Megerle von Mühlfeld 1765 1840...
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    changed into a cow in Ovid's Metamorphoses. The physician and naturalist Thomas Muffet wrote that the horse-fly "carries before him a very hard, stiff, and...
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  • Christiaan Huygens. Botanical garden established at Uppsala University. Thomas Muffet's Healths Improvement, or, Rules comprising and discovering the nature...
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    Ray a description and a reference to "Mouffet. Theat. Insect. p.98" (Thomas Muffet, 1634. Insectorum sive minimorum animalium theatrum; opus posthumus)...
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    Italian on the same subject. Vida's work was followed in England by Thomas Muffet's The Silkwormes and their Flies (1599), a subject that he had studied...
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  • publishes his ophthalmology textbook Traite des maladies de l'oeil. Thomas Muffet publishes De jure et praestantia chemicorum medicamentorum. March 12...
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  • Parliament of England Preceded by Thomas Muffet Member of Parliament for Wilton 1601 Succeeded by Sir Thomas Edmondes Hugh Sandford Preceded by Walter...
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    by Timothy Bright. Turner knew Thomas Penny at Heidelberg; and accompanied him on trips as a naturalist. Thomas Muffet, another associate, later mentioned...
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  • 1617) Robert Hues, English mathematician and geographer (d. 1632) Thomas Muffet, English naturalist and physician (d. 1604) Luca Valerio, Italian mathematician...
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  • University of Pisa. Joachim Camerarius the younger publishes Hortus medicus. Thomas Muffet publishes Nosomantica Hippocratea. Agostino Ramelli publishes Le diverse...
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    George Allen & Unwin, 1954) Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808)...
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