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Ray demurred, and begged that he be allowed to go free and preach anything he thought was truth new truth might come to him! This shows the absurdity of Ray. He was asked to reconsider or resign. He resigned resigned the year that Sir Isaac Newton entered. Fortunately, one particular pupil followed him, not that he loved college less, but that he loved Ray more. This pupil was Francis Willughby.
On the death of Willughby, R. ed. his sons, and in 1679 retired to his native village, where he continued his scientific labours until his death. He was for long popularly known by his treatise, The Wisdom of God manifested in the works of the Creation , a precursor of Paley's Natural Theology.
In 1663 he had travelled on the Continent for three years with his pupil-friend, F. Willughby, and in 1673 appeared Observations on his journeys, which extended over the Low Countries, Germany, Italy, and France, with a catalogue of plants not native to England.
Through the bounty of this pupil we get the scientist otherwise, Ray would surely have been starved into subjection. Willughby took Ray to the home of his parents, who were rich people. Ray undertook the education of young Willughby, very much as Aristotle took charge of Alexander. Willughby and Ray traveled, studied, observed and wrote.
Due credit was given Harvey for his discovery of the circulation of the blood; but Ray made the fine point that man was brother to the tree, and his life was derived from the same Source. When Willughby died, in Sixteen Hundred Seventy-two, he left Ray a yearly income of three hundred dollars. Doctor Johnson told Boswell that Ray had a collection of twenty thousand English bugs.
They went to Spain, took trips to France, Italy and Switzerland, and journeyed to Scotland. Willughby devoted his life to Ornithology and Ichthyology and won a deathless place in science. Ray specialized on botany, and did a work in classification never done before.
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