John Bainbridge ( English John Bainbridge , 1582-1643) - English astronomer and mathematician.
| John Bainbridge | |
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| John bainbridge | |
| Date of Birth | 1582 |
| Place of Birth | Ashby de la Zauch , County Leicestershire , England |
| Date of death | November 3, 1643 |
| A place of death | Oxford , Oxfordshire , England |
| Scientific field | Astronomy |
| Place of work | |
| Alma mater | Emmanuel college |
| Known as | First Savile professor of astronomy |
Biography
Born in , county of Leicestershire, in the family of Robert Bainbridge and Anna (nee Everard) [1] . He graduated from school at Ashby de la Zauch, after which he entered the Emmanuel College of the University of Cambridge [2] . After training in Cambridge, he returned to Ashby, where for several years he worked as a doctor, taught at school and studied astronomy. In 1618, Bainbridge moved to London, where he was accepted into the community of doctors, and also impressed the astronomer community with his publication of the 1618 comet .
Being a Puritan in his religious views [3] , in 1618 Bainbridge became a member of a group of like-minded scientists, known as the Gresham Circle . In 1619, the well-known scientist and philanthropist Sir Henry Saville , who had established professors of astronomy and geometry at his own expense at Oxford University , elected Bainbridge the first Savile professor of astronomy [4] . Bainbridge became a professor at and a Lynacroctor lecturer . Among Bainbridge’s students at Oxford was John Wilkins , subsequently one of the founders of the Royal Society of London , astrologer and mathematician and astronomer John Greaves , who succeeded Bainbridge as Savile professor of astronomy, were among his colleagues.
Bainbridge’s creative heritage includes publications by An Astronomical Description of the late Comet (1619), Canicularia (1648), as well as a translation of the work of De Sphaera Proclus Diadochus and De Planetarum Hypothesibus Ptolemy (1620). Several of Bainbridge's handwritten works are in the library of Trinity College in Dublin [5] .
John Bainbridge died at Oxford on November 3, 1643. [6] .
Notes
- ↑ Hockey, Thomas. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers . - Springer Publishing , 2009 .-- ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0 .
- ↑ Nichols, John. The history and antiquities of the county of Leicester: Vol. 3, Part 2 .. - 1804. Note: Nichols mistakenly says John Bainbridge's mother's name is Alice.
- ↑ David C. Lindberg, Ronald L. Numbers (1986). God and Nature, p. 201.
- ↑ Thomas Hockey, Katherine Bracher, Marvin Bolt, Virginia Trimble, Richard Jarrell, JoAnn Palmeri, Jordan D. Marché, Thomas Williams, F. Jamil Ragep. "Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers", Springer. p. 85
- ↑ Tercentenary of John Bainbridge (Eng.) // Nature. - 1943. - Vol. 152 , no. November 6, 1943 . - P. 532 . - DOI : 10.1038 / 152532a0 . - . The papers in Trinity library came from archbishop James Ussher , possibly through John Greaves , who knew both men well. Bainbridge died intestate , and Greaves dealt with his estate (Birch, Misc. Works , p. Xxix)
- ↑ Birch, Thomas. Miscellaneous works of Mr. John Greaves . - London: J. Brindley and C. Corbett, 1737. - P. xii.