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BAINBRIDGE, JOHN (1582-1643)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 223 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BAI-BAR
BAINBRIDGE, JOHN (1582-1643) , English astronomer, was born at
Ashby
 -de-la-Zouch, in Leicestershire. He started as a physician and practised for some years, kept a school and studied astronomy. Having removed to London, he was admitted (November 6, 1618) a licentiate of the college of physicians, and attracted notice by a publication concerning the comet of 1618. Sir
Henry
  Savile (15491622) thereupon appointed him in 1619 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 the 3rd of November 1643. 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.
See Munk's College of Physicians, i. 175;
Wood
 's Athenae (Bliss), iii. 67 ; Biographia Britannica, i. 419.


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