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An engraving by William Rogers c. 1600
Edward Wotton (1492 – 5 October 1555) was an English
physician , born in
Oxford , credited with starting the modern study of
zoology , by separating out much of the fanciful and folkloric additions that had been added over time to the body of zoological knowledge.
His systematic researches on Aristotelian lines were collected in De differentiis animalium libri decem , published in
Paris in 1552.
[1]
[2] Wotton was also partly responsible for
Insectorum, sive, Minimorum animalium theatrum 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 Christi College, Oxford , with leave to travel into Italy for three years. He attended
Padua , applied himself to physic, and took the degree of doctor. He was admitted a fellow of the
College of Physicians 8 February 1528. He does not appear, as often stated, to have been physician to Henry VIII, but did serve the
Duke of Norfolk and
Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury .
[1] He was a fellow
censor with
Alban Hill in 1555.
[3]
References
^
a
b
Pollard, A. F. ; Wallis, Patrick (2004).
"Wotton, Edward (1492–1555)" .
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/29999 . Retrieved 24 October 2011 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
^ Ogilvie, Brian W. (2010). Grafton, Anthony; Most, Glenn W.; Settis, Salvatore (eds.). Zoology . Harvard University Press. pp. 1000–1001.
ISBN
978-0-674-07227-5 .
^
The roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London : Vol. I, Munk, p. 27, (London 1878).
External links
Pollard, A. F. (1900).
"Wotton, Edward (1492-1555)" . In
Lee, Sidney (ed.).
Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 63. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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