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Savilian may
refer to:
Henry Savile (Bible translator) (1549-1622),
English scholar Savilian Professor, the
professorships he
founded at Oxford, namely:...
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including in
November 1648, the
Savilian Professors of
Geometry and Astronomy. In 1649
Wallis was
appointed as
Savilian Professor of Geometry.
Wallis seems...
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position of
Savilian Professor of
Geometry was
established at the
University of
Oxford in 1619. It was
founded (at the same time as the
Savilian Professorship...
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Savilian Professor may
refer to:
Savilian Professor of Astronomy,
University of Oxford,
England Savilian Professor of Geometry,
University of Oxford, England...
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position of
Savilian Professor of
Astronomy was
established at the
University of
Oxford in 1619. It was
founded (at the same time as the
Savilian Professorship...
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Warden of
Merton College, Oxford, and
Provost of Eton. He
endowed the
Savilian chairs of
Astronomy and of
Geometry at
Oxford University, and was one of...
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female master. In the same year, Dame
Frances Kirwan became the
twentieth Savilian Professor of
Geometry and the
first woman to hold that post. In 2021, students...
- 1762 and 1764.
Bliss studied at
Oxford University and
later became the
Savilian Professor of Geometry. He made
important meridian observations of a comet...
- was
professor of
mathematics at the
University of Edinburgh, and
later Savilian Professor of
Astronomy at the
University of Oxford, and a
proponent of...
- Society), Seth Ward (mathematician and
Savilian Professor of Astronomy), and Sir
Christopher Wren (mathematician and
Savilian Professor of Astronomy). Sir Christopher...
