John Ray Facts
John Ray Facts
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| Interesting John Ray Facts: |
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| John Ray was born in Black Notley, England where his father was a blacksmith. |
| In 1643 he entered Cambridge University and studied at Trinity College and Catharine Hall. |
| In 1649 he was chosen minor fellow of Trinity. |
| In 1651 he became a lecturer in Greek and in 1653 a lecturer in mathematics. |
| His most famous student was Francis Willughby. |
| On December 23, 1660 he was ordained and some of his sermons were on seeing God in creation. |
| From 1663 to March 1666 Ray, Willughby and two other students traveled through Europe collecting animal and plants. |
| Ray published an account of their travels entitled Observations topographical, moral and physiological, made on a Journey through part of the Low Countries, Germany, Italy, and France. |
| Willughby made systematic descriptions of the ornithology and ichthyology and Ray did the same with the plants collections. |
| In 1682 he published Methodus plantarum nova. |
| His greatest work, Historia generalis plantarum was published in three volumes in 1686, 1688 and 1704. |
| In 1667 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society . |
| In 1669 he and Willughby published Experiments concerning the Motion of Sap in Trees. |
| In his History of plants, written in 1686, he was the first to create a biological definition of species. |
| In 1690's he published three volumes on religion, including the Works of The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Creation in 1691. |
| He wrote an early work on dendrochronology which explained how to date an ash tree from its tree rings. |
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