William Turner (naturalist)
English Protestant reformer, physician and natural historian (c. 1509–1568) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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. He was an early herbalist and ornithologist, and it is in these fields that the most interest lies today.[3] He is known as being one of the first "parson-naturalists" in England.[4]
He first published Libellus de Re herbaria in Latin in 1538, and later translated it into English because he believed herbalists were not sharing their knowledge. Turner's works were condemned under Henry VIII and under Mary Tudor.[2]