Thomas Muffet (also Moufet, Mouffet,[1] or Moffet) (1553 – 5 June 1604) was an English naturalist and physician. He is best known his study of insects and arthropods in regard to medicine (particularly spiders), his support of the Paracelsian system of medicine, and his emphasis on the importance of experience over reputation in the field of medicine. He was an Anti-papist due to his Puritan beliefs.
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ThomasMuffet (also Moufet, Mouffet, or Moffet) (1553 – 5 June 1604) was an English naturalist and physician. He is best known his study of insects and...
"Little Miss Muffet" is an English nursery rhyme of uncertain origin, first recorded in 1805. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20605. The rhyme...
changed into a cow in Ovid's Metamorphoses. The physician and naturalist ThomasMuffet wrote that the horse-fly "carries before him a very hard, stiff, and...
history: it is first mentioned, along with a Shropshire cheese, by ThomasMuffet in Health's Improvement (c. 1580). There is an unsupported myth that...
posthumously from the work of Edward Wotton, Conrad Gesner and Thomas Penny by ThomasMuffet and prepared for publication by Théodore de Mayerne.[citation...
Rudolf Glauber, German-born chemical engineer (died 1670) 5 June – ThomasMuffet, English naturalist and physician (born 1553) before August – William...
1551 de Avibus, cum fig. illuminatus Epistolae Medicinales Zurich 1577 ThomasMuffet, De Insect cum fig, London 1634 Nosomantica Hippocratea, Frankfurt 1588...
work on insects was edited by various authors, including Thomas Penny, until ThomasMuffet brought it to publication as Insectorum sive minimorum animalium...
by Conrad Gessner (posthumously), Edward Edward Wotton, ThomasMuffet, and Thomas Penny. Thomas was the son of John Penny or Penne of Eskrigg in Gressingham...
Sales Thomas Herbert – Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique Johannes Kepler (died 1630) – Somnium (written 1608) ThomasMuffet (died...
1517) May 26 – Godfrey Goldsborough, English bishop (b. 1548) June 5 – ThomasMuffet, English naturalist and physician (b. 1553) June 10 – Isabella Andreini...
the five Cambridge Regius professors. Among his medical students was ThomasMuffet. From 1572 till 1585 he was rector of Little Waltham in Essex. Lorkin...
American baseball player Little Miss Muffet, a nursery rhyme ThomasMuffet (1553-1604), English naturalist and physician Muffet, a spider-like character from...
changed into a cow in Ovid's Metamorphoses. The physician and naturalist ThomasMuffet wrote that the horse-fly "carries before him a very hard, stiff, and...
Christiaan Huygens. Botanical garden established at Uppsala University. ThomasMuffet's Healths Improvement, or, Rules comprising and discovering the nature...
Ray a description and a reference to "Mouffet. Theat. Insect. p.98" (ThomasMuffet, 1634. Insectorum sive minimorum animalium theatrum; opus posthumus)...
Neuroptera Victor Ivanovich Motschulsky 1810 1871 Russia Coleoptera ThomasMuffet 1552 1604 United Kingdom Johann Carl Megerle von Mühlfeld 1765 1840...
George Allen & Unwin, 1954) Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808)...
Italian on the same subject. Vida's work was followed in England by ThomasMuffet's The Silkwormes and their Flies (1599), a subject that he had studied...
publishes his ophthalmology textbook Traite des maladies de l'oeil. ThomasMuffet publishes De jure et praestantia chemicorum medicamentorum. March 12...
1617) Robert Hues, English mathematician and geographer (d. 1632) ThomasMuffet, English naturalist and physician (d. 1604) Luca Valerio, Italian mathematician...
University of Pisa. Joachim Camerarius the younger publishes Hortus medicus. ThomasMuffet publishes Nosomantica Hippocratea. Agostino Ramelli publishes Le diverse...
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