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

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