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This is the first-ever English edition of the naturalist Martin Lister's Tractatus de Araneis, written in Latin and published in 1678. A founder member of the Royal Society and a friend and regular correspondent of his well-known contemporary, John Ray, Lister was highly regarded in his own day and cited by Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae (1758). With the demise of Latin as the language of science, and the ability to read it, so his pioneering contribution to British arachnology has been either overlooked or discounted and he has faded into relative obscurity.

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of great interest and a source of reference to historians of science and to working arachnologists alike. The whole production forms an absorbing study of seventeenth-century natural history and the foundations of arachnology in this country. Its beauty lies in the knowledge it provides of both the man and his subject. - R. A. Baker, Archives of Natural History

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John Parker, a past-president of the British Arachnological Society, has long been an admirer of Martin Lister and has, with this book, restored him to his rightful position as 'father of British arachnology'.

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