Whiston, William (1667-1752)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4088. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Born in Norton, Leicestershire, became the controversial third Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, succeeding ISAAC NEWTON. He used the principles of the Principia in a popular book to explain the Book of Genesis and the Flood, which he envisaged as caused by the near approach of a comet, an interesting foreshadowing of current theories. He published in 1716 the first under...

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