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Cambridge experts recreate 336-year-old garden to commemorate ‘father of natural history’
Cambridge experts recreated a 336-year-old garden to honor John Ray, a 17th-century botanist who coined the terms 'petal' and 'pollen.' Ray, known as 'the father of natural history,' began his plant studies while a tutor at Cambridge in the 1650s.
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