Thomas Penny
English physician and entomologist (1532–1589)
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Thomas Penny (1532 – January 1589) was an English physician and early entomologist . His solo works have not survived and he is primarily known through quotations from other sixteenth-century biologists. It is believed that he broke with Aristotle on classification of caterpillars . He was also a Puritan and as such kept a low profile during the reign of Queen Mary I of England . He is perhaps best known for being partly responsible for the Insectorum, sive, Minimorum animalium theatrum or Theatre of Insects . This work was written jointly by Conrad Gessner (posthumously), Edward Edward Wotton , Thomas Muffet , and Thomas Penny. [1]
Penny suffered from asthma and dosed himself with woodlice crushed in wine. [2] [3]
References
- ↑ Thomas Penny the first English Entomologist by W. T. W. Potts and L. Fear. article at the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society
- ↑ "Embroidered Elizabethan Jacket: insects and early entomologists" . Addison Embroidery at the Vicarage. 19 October 2012 . Retrieved 6 March 2016 .
- ↑ Raven, Charles E. (31 October 2010). English Naturalists from Neckam to Ray: A Study of the Making of the Modern World . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 171. ISBN 978-11080-163-46 .
Further reading
- D. E. Allen, ‘Penny, Thomas (c.1530–1589)’ , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004
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