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John Ray
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British botanist (1627–1705)
John Ray was an influential British botanist from the 1600s who made major contributions to how scientists classify and understand plants. His work laid important groundwork for modern biology and the way we organize knowledge about the natural world.
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Person · Open Library
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- 140
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- My MacBook (Lion Edition)
- More love
- British Agriculture, 1700 to the Present Day
- The Correspondence of John Ray
- Catalogus Plantarum Angliae, et Insularum Adjacentium Tum Indigenas, Tum in Agris Passim Cultas Complectens in Quo Praeter Synonyma Necessaria Facult
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- Male
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- United States
- Active from
- 1930-09-23
- Active to
- 2004-06-10
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- 77
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- 487
John Ray en su nuevo álbum Amor Sincero, relata de una manera genuina, sus experiencias con el amor. Cada una de las canciones fueron escritas como el resultado de alguna experiencia, que inspiró la letra, y esta a su vez inspiro la música. Estoy seguro, te inspirará a amar sinceramente y a conocer en carne propia, lo que verdaderamente es el amor hacia una mujer, hacia el fruto de su vientre, y hacia Dios, la persona que define el Amor. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Ray">Read more on
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,620x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,712x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,354x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 34,338x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 28,853x
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Quotes
- “I cannot but look upon the strange Instinct of this noisome and troublesome Creature a Louse, of searching out foul and nasty Clothes to harbor and breed in, as an Effect of divine Providence, design'd to deter Men and Women from Sluttishness and Sordidness.”
- “In a calm sea every man is a pilot.”
- “Like blood, like good, and like agen make the happiest marriage.”
- “He speaks Bear-garden. That is, such rude and uncivil, or sordid and dirty language, as the rabble that frequent those sports, are wont to use.”
- “Money and friendship bribe justice.Beauty is potent, but money is omnipotent.”
- “Prate us but prade; it's money buys landMoney begets money.”
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- 1705-01-17
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Sculpture of Ray by Louis-François Roubiliac, housed at the British Museum John Ray (29 November 1627 – 17 January 1705) was an English Christian naturalist and one of the earliest English parson-naturalists. Until 1670 he wrote his name as John Wray; from then on, he used 'Ray', after "having ascertained that such had been the practice of his family before him". He published important works in the fields of botany, zoology and natural theology.
His classification of plants in his Historia Plantarum was an important step towards modern taxonomy. Ray rejected the system of dichotomous division, by which species were classified by repeated sub-division into groups according to a pre-conceived series of characteristics they have or have not, and instead classified plants according to similarities and differences that emerged from observation. He was among the first to attempt a biological definition for the concept of species, as "a group of morphologically similar organisms arising from a common ancestor". Another significant contribution to taxonomy was his division of plants into those with two seedling leaves (dicotyledons) or only one (monocotyledons), a division used in taxonomy today.