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Nicholas Culpeper

1616 - 1654

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Nicholas Culpeper (18 October 1616 – 10 January 1654) was an English botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer. His book The English Physitian (1652, later Complete Herbal, 1653 ff.) is a source of pharmaceutical and herbal lore of the time, and Astrological Judgement of Diseases from the Decumbiture of the Sick (1655) one of the most detailed works on medical astrology in Early Modern Europe. Culpeper catalogued hundreds of outdoor medicinal herbs. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicholas Culpeper has received more than 345,405 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Nicholas Culpeper is the 5,192nd most popular writer, the 3,877th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 435th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Nicholas Culpeper ranks 5,192 out of 7,302. Before him are Maurice Carême, Juan Meléndez Valdés, Antti Tuuri, Gabriel Miró, Anna Haava, and Bertalan Szemere. After him are Philip Agee, Donald Rayfield, John Farey Sr., Gesualdo Bufalino, Eugene Znosko-Borovsky, and Rita Mae Brown.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1616, Nicholas Culpeper ranks 18. Before him are Kuzma Minin, Caesar van Everdingen, Anna de' Medici, Archduchess of Austria, John Owen, Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau, and Shah Shuja.  Among people deceased in 1654, Nicholas Culpeper ranks 18. Before him are Jacques Lemercier, Christian I, Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler, Ole Worm, Matei Basarab, Athanasius III of Constantinople, and John Selden.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Nicholas Culpeper ranks 3,877 out of 8,785. Before him are Stanley Holloway (1890), Jonathan Glazer (1965), Peter Doig (1959), Sharleen Spiteri (1967), Havergal Brian (1876), and H. B. Warner (1876). After him are Thomas Andrew Knight (1759), Alex Kingston (1963), Cassandra Austen (1773), Donald Rayfield (1942), John Farey Sr. (1766), and Aaron Arrowsmith (1750).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Nicholas Culpeper ranks 435. Before him are Max Beerbohm (1872), William Davenant (1606), George Borrow (1803), Jonathan Stroud (1970), Anne V. Coates (1925), and Elizabeth Goudge (1900). After him are Donald Rayfield (1942), John Farey Sr. (1766), Clara Reeve (1729), David McKee (1935), Bob Shaw (1931), and George Crabbe (1754).

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