John Bainbridge (1582 – 3 November 1643) was an English astronomer.
Life
Bainbridge was born at Ashby-de-la-Zouch, in Leicestershire to Robert and Anne (née Everard) Bainbridge.[1] He attended the Free Grammar School in Ashby-de-la-Zouch and then became a student at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.[2] He returned to Ashby where he practiced as a physician for some years, kept a school and studied astronomy. Having removed to London, he was admitted (6 November 1618) a licentiate of the college of physicians, and was noticed due to a publication concerning the comet of 1618.
Sir Henry Savile (1549–1622) then appointed him in 1610 to the Savilian chair of astronomy just founded by him at Oxford; Bainbridge was incorporated of Merton College and became, in 1631 and 1635 respectively, junior and senior reader of Linacre's lectures.
He died at Oxford on 3 November 1643. He was a friend of Christopher Heydon, the writer on astrology; and also of John Greaves, his successor to both the Savilian chair and Linacre's lectures.[3]
Works
He wrote An Astronomical Description of the late Comet (1619); Canicularia (1648); and translated Proclus' De Sphaera, and Ptolemy's De Planetarum Hypothesibus (1620). Several manuscript works by him exist in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin.[4]
References
- ↑ Hockey, Thomas (2009). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer Publishing. ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0. Retrieved August 22, 2012.
- ↑ Nichols, John (1804). The history and antiquities of the county of Leicester : Vol. 3, Part 2.. Note: Nichols mistakenly says John Bainbridge's mother's name is Alice.
- ↑ Birch, Thomas (1737). Miscellaneous works of Mr. John Greaves. London: J. Brindley and C. Corbett. p. xii. Retrieved 6 May 2011.
- ↑ "Tercentenary of John Bainbridge". Nature 152 (6 November 1943): 532. 1943. Bibcode:[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1943Natur.152Q.532. 1943Natur.152Q.532.]. doi:10.1038/152532a0. Retrieved 15 May 2011. The papers in Trinity library came from archbishop James Ussher, possibly through John Greaves, who knew both men well. Bainbridge died intestate, and Greaves dealt with his estate (Birch, Misc. works, p. xxix)
- Andrew Pyle (editor), Dictionary of Seventeenth Century British Philosophers (2000), article pp. 52–4.
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English astronomer |
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1582 |
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Ashby-de-la-Zouch |
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3 November 1643 |
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