Savilian Professors Of Geometry
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Henry Savile (Bible translator) Sir Henry Savile (30 November 154919 February 1622) was an English scholar and mathematician, warden (college), Warden of Merton College, Oxford, and Provost of Eton. He endowed the Savilian Professor of Astronomy, Savilian chairs of Astronomy ...
(1549-1622), English scholar **Savilian Professor, the professorships he founded at Oxford, namely: ***
Savilian Professor of Astronomy The 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 of Geometry) by Sir Henry Savile, a mathematician and classical scholar who was ...
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Savilian Professor of Geometry The 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 Professor of Astronomy, Savilian Professorship of Astronomy) by Henry Savile (Bible translator), ...
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Savile Club The Savile Club is a traditional gentlemen's club in London that was founded in 1868. Located in fashionable and historically significant Mayfair, its membership, past and present, includes many prominent names. Changing premises Initially cal ...
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