Thomas Muffet (also Moufet, Mouffet, or Moffet) (1553 – 5 June 1604) was an English naturalist and physician. He is best known his study of insects and...

"Little Miss Muffet" is an English nursery rhyme of uncertain origin, first recorded in 1805. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20605. The rhyme...

changed into a cow in Ovid's Metamorphoses. The physician and naturalist Thomas Muffet wrote that the horse-fly "carries before him a very hard, stiff, and...

history: it is first mentioned, along with a Shropshire cheese, by Thomas Muffet in Health's Improvement (c. 1580). There is an unsupported myth that...

posthumously from the work of Edward Wotton, Conrad Gesner and Thomas Penny by Thomas Muffet and prepared for publication by Théodore de Mayerne. The Académie...

American baseball player Little Miss Muffet, a nursery rhyme Thomas Muffet (1553-1604), English naturalist and physician Muffet, a spider-like character from...

by Conrad Gessner (posthumously), Edward Edward Wotton, Thomas Muffet, and Thomas Penny. Thomas was the son of John Penny or Penne of Eskrigg in Gressingham...

or Theatre of Insects, although this was not published (as edited by Thomas Muffet) until 1634. By favour of bishop Fox, he was made socius compar of Corpus...

work on insects was edited by various authors, including Thomas Penny, until Thomas Muffet brought it to publication as Insectorum sive minimorum animalium...

Rudolf Glauber, German-born chemical engineer (died 1670) 5 June – Thomas Muffet, English naturalist and physician (born 1553) before August – William...