[Ads-l] Antedating of "Ornithology"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Mon Feb 1 03:25:04 UTC 2016


ornithology (OED 1655, in this sense 1770)

1654 Richard Whitlock _Zootomia_ (Early English Books Online)  The best Interpreter of Ornithology, or Language of Birds.

Fred Shapiro

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