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John Greaves in 1650[1]
John Greaves (1602 – 8 October 1652) was an English mathematician, astronomer and antiquarian.
Educated at Balliol College, Oxford, he was elected a Fellow of Merton College in 1624. He studied Persian and Arabic, acquired a number of old books and manuscripts for archbishop William Laud (some still in Merton College Library), and wrote a treatise (in Latin) on the Persian language. He travelled in Italy and the Levant from 1636 to 1640 and made a survey of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
He was Gresham Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, and Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford University, and collected astrolabes and astronomical measuring devices (now in the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford). He was particularly interested in the study of weights and measures, and wrote a treatise on the Roman foot and denarius, and was a keen numismatist. In 1645 he attempted a reform of the Julian calendar, which was not adopted.
During the English Civil War he supported Charles I, who stayed at Merton College while in Oxford, but lost his academic positions at Oxford in 1647 through the animosity of Nathaniel Brent, Warden of Merton College and a Parliamentarian.
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fluctuated over their decade together, but drummer Chris Cutler, bassist JohnGreaves, and bassoonist/oboist Lindsay Cooper were important long-term members...
historical book written by the English author JohnGreaves in the year 1646 about the Pyramids of Giza. JohnGreaves Pyramid of Khafre Pyramidographia, or, A...
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OCLC 51668000. Butler, John Anthony (2019-01-22). JohnGreaves, Pyramidographia and Other Writings, with Birch's Life of JohnGreaves. Cambridge Scholars...
machines, 'John E. Greaves and Co' (Russian: "Джонъ Грiевз и К°"). John E. Greaves was born in 1846, in Sheffield, England, to Edward Greaves (1823-1903)...
mixed by Sarah Greaves Track 15 are from a concert at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris, 8 May 1975, with live mix by Sarah Greaves A double CD of...
ever been found. Reprinted in Miscellaneous works of Mr. JohnGreaves Vol. I (1737) J. Greaves [probably not the real author], The origin and antiquity...
stones were robbed; they were presumably still in place by 1646, when JohnGreaves, professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford in his Pyramidographia...
death, Moonchild by Annie Barbazza and Max Repetti. The third one was JohnGreaves', Life Size. One artist considered by the label, but subsequently not...
members of Henry Cow, namely Fred Frith, Tim Hodgkinson, Chris Cutler and JohnGreaves. They have performed in several European countries, including Italy,...
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