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JOHN BAINBRIDGE (1582-1643)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 223 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:BAINBRIDGE (1582-1643)  , See also:English astronomer, was See also:born at See also:Ashby-de-la-See also:Zouch, in See also:Leicestershire . He started as a physician and practised for some years, kept a school and studied See also:astronomy . Having removed to See also:London, he was admitted (See also:November 6, 1618) a licentiate of the See also:college of physicians, and attracted See also:notice by a publication concerning the See also:comet of 1618 . See also:Sir See also:Henry See also:Savile (1549–1622) thereupon appointed him in 1619 to the Savilian See also:chair of astronomy just founded by him at See also:Oxford ; See also:Bainbridge was incorporated of Merton College and became, in 1631 and 1635 respectively, junior and See also:senior reader of See also:Linacre's lectures . He died at Oxford on the 3rd of November 1643 . He wrote An Astronomical Description of the See also:late Comet (1619); Canicularia (1648); and translated See also:Proclus' De Sphaera, and See also:Ptolemy's De Planetarum Hypothesibus (1620) . Several See also:manuscript See also:works by him exist in the library of Trinity College, See also:Dublin . See Munk's College of Physicians, i . 175; See also:Wood's Athenae (See also:Bliss), iii . 67 ; Biographia Britannica, i . 419 .

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