biography
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| (1614–72)
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| biography:
| Anglican clergyman, the first secretary of the Royal Society, born in Fawsley, Northamptonshire, C England, UK. He studied at Oxford, became a domestic chaplain, and took part in a group which met to further interest in science, and which later became the Royal Society (1662). In the Civil War he sided with parliament, and was appointed Warden of Wadham College, Oxford (1648), but was dispossessed at the Restoration. He soon recovered court favour, and became preacher at Gray's Inn, rector of St Lawrence Jewry (1662), Dean of Ripon (1663), and Bishop of Chester (1668). In his Discovery of a World in the Moon (1628) he discusses the possibility of communication by a flying-machine with the Moon and its supposed inhabitants; the Discourse Concerning a New Planet (1640) argues that the Earth is one of the planets. |
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