biography
pronunciation:
[kohts]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1682–1716)
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| biography:
| Mathematician, born in Burbage, Leicestershire, C England, UK. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a fellow in 1705, and professor of astronomy and natural philosophy in 1706. In 1713 he took holy orders. He collaborated with Isaac Newton in revising the second edition of Newton's Principia, and contributed a preface defending Newton's methodology. |
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