John Ray's Cambridge Catalogue (1660) Available to Purchase

John Ray was a Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge in the late seventeenth century. Although he lectured in a range of subjects from classics to mathematics, his greatest work when at Trinity was in botany. After he left in 1662, as a result of the Act of Uniformity, he worked in wider areas of natural history. He is a significant person in the history of the study of botany (and other natural science) in England and in the wider European and international arena. He was one of the first to break free of the classical botany based on historic accounts...