biography
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| (1675–1729)
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| biography:
| Philosopher and theologian, born in Norwich, Norfolk, E England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, where he became a friend and disciple of Newton. He was chaplain to the Bishop of Norwich (from 1698), and to Queen Anne (from 1706), and became rector of St James's, Westminster, in 1709. His Boyle Lectures of 1704–5 contained his ‘Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God’ and expounded a ‘mathematical’ proof of God's existence. |
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