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SIMON FORMAN (1552-1611)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 668 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIMON See also:FORMAN (1552-1611)  , See also:English physician and astrologer, was See also:born in 1552 at Quidham, a small See also:village near See also:Wilton, See also:Wiltshire . At the See also:age of fourteen he became apprentice to a druggist at See also:Salisbury, but at the end of four years he exchanged this profession for that of a schoolmaster . Shortly afterwards he entered Magdalen See also:College, See also:Oxford, where he studied chiefly See also:medicine and See also:astrology . After continuing the same studies- in See also:Holland he commenced practice as a physician in Philpot See also:Lane, See also:London, but as he possessed no diploma, he on this See also:account underwent more than one See also:term of imprisonment . Ultimately, however, he obtained a diploma from See also:Cambridge university, and established himself as a physician and astrologer at See also:Lambeth, where he was consulted, especially as a physician, by many persons of See also:rank, among others by the notorious countess of See also:Essex . He expired suddenly while See also:crossing the See also:Thames in a See also:boat on the 12th of See also:September 1611 . A See also:list of See also:Forman's See also:works on astrology is given in See also:Bliss's edition of the Athenae Oxonienses; many of his MS. works are contained in the Bodleian Library, the See also:British Museum and the See also:Plymouth Library . A Brief Description of the Forman See also:MSS. in the Public Library, . Plymouth, was published in 1853 .

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