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ALLEN, or ALLEYN, THOMAS (1542-1632)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 692 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALLEN, or See also:ALLEYN, See also:THOMAS (1542-1632)  , See also:English mathe-' matician, was See also:born at See also:Uttoxeter in See also:Staffordshire on the 21st of See also:December 1 542 . He was admitted See also:scholar of Trinity See also:College, See also:Oxford, in 1561; and graduated as M.A. in 1567 . In 1580 he quitted his college and fellowship, retired to See also:Gloucester See also:Hall, and became famous for his knowledge of antiquity, See also:philosophy and See also:mathematics . Having received an invitation from See also:Henry See also:Percy, See also:earl of See also:Northumberland, a See also:great friend and See also:patron of men of See also:science, he spent some See also:time at the earl's See also:house, where he became acquainted with See also:Thomas See also:Harriot, See also:John See also:Dee and other famous mathematicians . He was also intimate with See also:Sir See also:Robert See also:Cotton, See also:William See also:Camden, and their antiquarian associates . Robert See also:Dudley, earl of See also:Leicester, had a particular esteem for See also:Allen, and would have conferred a bishopric upon him, but his love of solitude made him decline the offer . His great skill in mathematics and See also:astrology earned him the See also:credit of being a magician; and the author of Leicester's See also:Commonwealth accuses him of employing the See also:art of " figuring " to further the earl of Leicester's unlawful designs, and of endeavouring by the See also:black art to bring about a match between his patron and See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth . Allen was indefatigable in See also:collecting scattered See also:manuscripts See also:relating to See also:history, antiquity, See also:astronomy, philosophy and mathematics . A considerable See also:part of his collection was presented to the Bodleian library by Sir Kenelm See also:Digby . He died on the 3oth of See also:September 1632 at Gloucester Hall . He published in Latin the second and third books of See also:Claudius See also:Ptolemy of See also:Pelusium, Concerning the See also:Judgment of the Stars, or, as it is commonly called, of the Quadripartite Construction, with an Exposition . He also wrote notes on John See also:Bale's De Scriptoribus M .

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