Edward Edward Wotton (1492-1552) Englishphysician created 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. Events January 2 - Boabdil, the last Moorish King of Granada, surrenders his city to the army of Ferdinand and Isabella after a lengthy siege. ... Events April - War between Henry II of France and Emperor Charles V. Henry invades Lorraine and captures Toul, Metz, and Verdun. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (2001) - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Ethnicity... A physician is a person who practices medicine. ... Zoology (Greek zoon = animal and logos = word) is the biological discipline which involves the study of animals. ...
SIR HENRY WOTTON (1568-1639), English author and diplomatist, son of Thomas Wotton (1521-1587) and grandnephew of the diplomatist Nicholas Wotton (q.v.), was born at Bocton Hall in the parish of Bocton or Boughton Malherbe, Kent.
Wotton was not, like his unfortunate fellow-secretary, Henry Cuffe, who was hanged at Tyburn in 1601, actually involved in Essex's downfall, but he thought it prudent to leave England, and within sixteen hours of his patron's apprehension he was safe in France, whence he travelled to Venice and Rome.
Wotton was at the time on leave in England, and made two formal defences of himself, one a personal attack on his accuser addressed to Marcus Weiser of Strassburg, and the other privately to the king.
The real dawn of zoology after the legendary period of the Middle Ages is connected with the name of an Englishman, EdwardEdwardWotton, born at Oxford in 1492, who practised as a physician in London and died in 1555.
It was Wotton's merit that he rejected the legendary and fantastic accretions, and returned to Aristotle and the observation of nature.
The most ready means of noting the progress of zoology during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries is to compare Aristotle's classificatory conceptions of successive naturalists with those which are to be found in the works of Caldon.
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