Eponym
Bowman's capsule is named after Sir William Bowman (1816-1892), a British surgeon and anatomist.
Together with the glomerulus it is known as a renal corpuscle, or a Malpighian corpuscle, named after Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694), an Italian physician and biologist. This name is not used widely anymore, probably to avoid confusion with Malpighian bodies of the spleen.
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