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John Stevens Henslow. John Stevens Henslow (Rochester, 6 febbraio 1796 – Hitcham, Suffolk, 16 maggio 1861) è stato un botanico inglese. Fu tra i fondatori della Cambridge Philosophical Society. È ricordato anche per essere stato il mentore di Charles Darwin. La sua abbreviazione botanica è "Hensl.
John Stevens Henslow (6 February 1796 – 16 May 1861) was an English Anglican priest, botanist and geologist. He is best remembered as friend and mentor to his pupil Charles Darwin.
- St. John's College, Cambridge
- John Henslow (grandfather)
- Geology of Anglesey, mentoring Charles Darwin
If anyone could lay claim to being one of the greatest Friends of Charles Darwin, it was the Reverend Professor John Stevens Henslow. Not only did this good-natured academic and clergyman teach Darwin much of his scientific technique, but he also arranged a place for his favourite pupil aboard HMS Beagle .
12 mar 2024 · John Stevens Henslow was a British botanist, clergyman, and geologist who popularized botany at the University of Cambridge by introducing new methods of teaching the subject. Henslow graduated from St. John’s College at Cambridge in 1818 and then turned to natural history, making geological.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
3 ago 2005 · John Stevens Henslow has an important place in the history of science as the man who recommended Charles Darwin as a substitute when the naturalist's berth fell vacant aboard HMS Beagle. But he ...
- David Kohn, Gina Murrell, John Parker, Mark Whitehorn
- 2005
6 February 1796 – 16 May 1861. Image: John Stevens Henslow by Thomas Herbert Maguire, 1851. John Stevens Henslow was a naturalist, a Cambridge academic, most remembered as a friend and mentor of Charles Darwin, inspiring him with a passion for natural history, proposing him to sail on the HMS Beagle as the naturalist on its five-year voyage ...
Professor John Henslow was a British botanist, clergyman, and geologist who popularised botany at the University of Cambridge by introducing new methods of teaching the subject. Notably he initiated the move of Cambridge University Botanic Garden to its present site in 1846 and was mentor to Charles Darwin, encouraging him to think about the ...
