See also:JOHN See also:HARRIS (c. 1666-1719)
, See also:English writer
.
He is best known as the editor of the See also:Lexicon technicum, or See also:Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences (1704), which ranks as the earliest of the See also:long See also:line of English encyclopaedias, and as the compiler of the Collection of Voyages and Travels which passes under his name
.
He was See also:born about 1666, probably in See also:Shropshire, and was a See also:scholar of Trinity See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, from 1684 to 1688
.
He was presented to the vicarage of Icklesham in See also:Sussex, and subsequently to the rectory of St See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas, See also:Winchelsea
.
In 1698 he was entrusted with the delivery of the seventh See also:series of the See also:Boyle lectures—Atheistical Objections against the Being of See also:God and His Attributes fairly considered and fully refuted
.
Between 1702 and 1704 he delivered at the Marine See also:Coffee See also:House in Birchin See also:Lane the mathematical lectures founded by See also:Sir See also:Charles See also:Cox, and advertised himself as a mathematical See also:tutor at See also:Amen Corner
.
The friendship of Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Cowper, afterwards See also:lord See also:chancellor, secured for him the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of private See also:chaplain, a prebend in See also:Rochester See also:cathedral (1708), and the rectory of the See also:united parishes of St Mildred, See also:Bread See also:Street and St See also:Margaret See also:Moses, in addition to other preferments
.
He showed himself an ardent supporter of the See also:government, and engaged in a See also:bitter See also:quarrel with the Rev
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Charles See also:Humphreys, who afterwards was chaplain to Dr Sacheverel
.
See also:Harris was one of the See also:early members of the Royal Society, and for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time acted as See also:vice-See also:president
.
At his See also:death on the 7th of See also:September 1719, he was busy completing an elaborate See also:History of See also:Kent
.
He is said to have died in poverty brought on by his own See also:bad management of his affairs
.
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