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That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
John Ray
Born: November 29, 1627
Died: January 17, 1705 (aged 77)
Bio: John Ray was an English naturalist widely regarded as one of the earliest of the English parson-naturalists. Until 1670, he wrote his name as John Wray.
Known for:
- De Historia piscium
- Methodus plantarum nova
- Historia Plantarum
- The correspondence of John Ray