The scientist who ate animals

There is nothing like using the palate to find out details about what lies ahead.

And that thought took up its best first occupant of the Chair of Zoology at Oxford, William Buckland (1784-1856).

Together with his son Francis, also a zoologist, William began to eat any animal that crossed his path , always with scientific curiosity. Francis even reached an agreement with the London Zoo to get a piece of anything that died there. Come on, that Buckland
or alter the gesture at a Chinese restaurant if they serve dog. U ants.

William Buckland, after long experience eating everything, had no doubts about the dish that had been most unpleasant. Take note: roast mole . However, after trying the blowflies stews, roast mole took second place in the TopEccs of Buckland.

But William Buckland not only content to gobble animals also eat other things quite nasty. For example, when the Archbishop of York showed him a snuff box containing the embalmed heart of Louis XVI he had bought in Paris at the time of the Revolution, Buckland
admitted he had never eaten the heart of a king. Can you imagine what he did then?

William Gratzer tells another story about the scientific voracity of Buckland in his book eurekas and euphoria:

During a visit to Italy, to the ever curious Buckland showed them a spot on the floor of a church in the place where a saint had been martyred. Each morning, they said, fresh blood was miraculously renewed. Immediately, William knelt on the floor and used
his tongue to the wet spot. There is blood, informed his hosts. He knew exactly what it was: nothing but bat urine.

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Posted by Fouad Ashraf on May 4 2012. Filed under World. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry