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Web of Nature: Martin Lister (1639-1712), the First Arachnologist

by Roos, A.M.

Publisher : Brill
Published In : Leiden
Illustrations : 39 illus

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Description:

This first full-length biography of Dr Martin Lister (1639-1712), vice-president of the Royal Society, Royal Physician, and the first arachnologist and conchologist, provides an unprecedented picture of a seventeenth-century virtuoso. Lister is recognized as the father of conchology.