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John Woodward (1 May 1665 – 25 April 1728) was an English naturalist, antiquarian and geologist, and founder by bequest of the Woodwardian Professorship of Geology at the University of Cambridge. Though a leading supporter of observation and experiment in what we now call science, few of his theories have survived.
May 1, 2018 · John Woodward, an English geologist and fossil collector, was born May 1, 1665. Woodward was an early believer in the organic origin of fossils (first proposed by Steno and Hooke around 1668), but he was initially at a loss to explain how fossils became embedded in the earth's crust, if they were the remains of living animals on the surface.
John Woodward, an English naturalist and geologist, founded the Woodwardian Professorship of Geology at Cambridge University. As a leading supporter of the scientific method, however, none of his natural law theories have been validated using the scientific method.
John Woodward (1 May 1665 – 25 April 1728) was an English naturalist, antiquarian and geologist, and founder by bequest of the Woodwardian Professorship of Geology at the University of Cambridge. Though a leading supporter of observation and experiment in what we now call science, few of his theories have survived.
John Woodward (1 May 1665 or 1668 - 25 Apr 1728) Physician, natural historian, antiquary, and professor of physic at Gresham College. He was made fellow of the Royal Society in 1693.
John B. Woodward (1835–1896), U.S. Civil War colonel and Brooklyn, N.Y. political figure. Sandy Woodward (John Forster Woodward, 1932–2013), British admiral.
John Woodward is a largely overlooked participant in physico-theology, but his literary works supply key information to modern readers in the understanding of this field. This study critically examines Woodward’s Natural History of the Earth for its significant contributions to early modern science and literary techniques of this discipline.
