William Whiston ( eng. William Whiston ; December 9, 1667 - August 22, 1752 ) - English scientist, encyclopedist, historian, mathematician, theologian.
| William Whiston | |
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| English William whiston | |
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| Date of Birth | December 9, 1667 |
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| Date of death | August 22, 1752 (84 years old) |
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| A country | Great Britain |
| Scientific field | history , math |
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| supervisor | I. Newton |
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He graduated from Claire College of Cambridge University (Bachelor 1690, Master 1695).
In 1696 , he published the book “ A New Theory of the Earth from its Original ... ”, in which he suggested that the Earth came from a comet and that the Flood was caused by the passage Earth through the tail of a huge comet, consisting of water. In 1701 he took the post of assistant Isaac Newton at Cambridge University, two years later he became a professor. However, in 1710 , Whiston was deprived of this post due to the fact that in his theological speeches he began to affirm the primordial correctness of Arianism ; a detailed substantiation of this position was devoted to the work of Whiston, “The Revival of Primary Christianity” ( Eng. Primitive Christianity Revived ; 1711 - 1712 , in 5 volumes).
Whiston owns a number of significant translations, primarily the translation into English of the "Jewish Antiquities" by Josephus .
Literature
- Roomet Jakapi . "William Whiston, The Universal Deluge, and a Terrible Specracle"
- Farrell, Maureen (1981). William Whiston. New York: Arno Press.
- Force, James E. (2002). William Whiston: Honest Newtonian. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.