Philip Henry Gosse
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English naturalist
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Why Is Philip Henry Gosse Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Philip Henry Gosse , known to his friends as Henry, was an English naturalist and populariser of natural science, an early improver of the seawater aquarium, and a painstaking innovator in the study of marine biology. Gosse created and stocked the first public aquarium at the London Zoo in 1853, and coined the term "aquarium" when he published the first manual, The Aquarium: An Unveiling of the Wonders of the Deep Sea, in 1854. His work was the catalyst for an aquarium craze in early Victorian England.
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