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John Woodward (1 May 1665 – 25 April 1728) was an English naturalist, antiquarian and geologist, and founder by bequest of the Woodwardian Professorship of Geology at the University of Cambridge. Though a leading supporter of observation and experiment in what we now call science, few of his theories have survived.
May 1, 2018 · John Woodward, an English geologist and fossil collector, was born May 1, 1665. Woodward was an early believer in the organic origin of fossils (first proposed by Steno and Hooke around 1668), but he was initially at a loss to explain how fossils became embedded in the earth's crust, if they were the remains of living animals on the surface. And then he got his Big Idea. What if, during the ...
Jul 10, 2024 · Woodward argues that the 'whole Terrestrial Globe was taken all to Pieces, and dissolved at the Deluge', and that fossilised remains were proof of the flood as described in the Bible. In the first part of the work, Woodward examines other theories of the Earth's history before presenting evidence - much of it based on his own fossil collection - in support of his theory.
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A full account of Woodward's life and views and a portrait of him are given in the Life and Letters of the Rev. Adam Sedgwick, by J. W. Clark and T. McK Hughes, where it is mentioned that his paper, read before the Royal Society in 1699, entitled Some Thoughts and Experiments concerning Vegetation, "shows that the author should be ranked as a founder of experimental plant-physiology, for he ...
Jul 19, 2019 · An illustration of a person's head and chest. ... An essay towards a natural history of the earth by Woodward, John, 1665-1728. ... Be the first one to write a review.
John Woodward. John Woodward, an English naturalist and geologist, founded the Woodwardian Professorship of Geology at Cambridge University. As a leading supporter of the scientific method, however, none of his natural law theories have been validated using the scientific method. Woodward was a close friend of Isaac Newton.
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Oct 30, 2014 · John Woodward Cambridge University Press , Oct 30, 2014 - Nature - 322 pages For the physician and natural historian John Woodward (c.1655-1728), fossils were the key to unlocking the mystery of the Earth's past, which he attempted to do in this controversial work, first published in 1695 and here reissued in the 1723 third edition.
