• Who needs advice?

    Margaret Mullett investigates advice literature from Byzantine texts to modern self-help culture.

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John Ray and Archives of Natural History

English naturalist John Ray was born in November 1627. Generally regarded as one of the earliest English parson-naturalists, he is credited as “the originator of the criterion of common parentage for conspecificity”. Ray wrote widely on botany, natural theology, taxonomy…