JOHN

See also:

• JOHN BAINBRIDGE (1582-1643)
• BAINBRIDGE, WILLIAM (1774-1833)

BAINBRIDGE (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 (1549–1622) 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 .