A General Biographical Dictionary, 2. köideWhittaker and Company, 1835 |
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... London , where he narrowly escaped suffer- and miscellaneous writer of the fifteenth and ing an irreparable loss , through the great fire sixteenth centuries . He was a native of the in the city , which destroyed the house of a ...
... London , where he narrowly escaped suffer- and miscellaneous writer of the fifteenth and ing an irreparable loss , through the great fire sixteenth centuries . He was a native of the in the city , which destroyed the house of a ...
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... London in great distress in 1680. - Wood . GARET ( JOHN ) a learned French Bene- dictine of the congregation of St Maur , was born at Havre - de - Grace about 1627 , and died at the abbey of Jumieges in 1694. He edited a valuable ...
... London in great distress in 1680. - Wood . GARET ( JOHN ) a learned French Bene- dictine of the congregation of St Maur , was born at Havre - de - Grace about 1627 , and died at the abbey of Jumieges in 1694. He edited a valuable ...
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... London in 1597 ; and was admit- ted a commoner of Trinity college , Oxford , in 1615 , where about four years after he took the degree of BA . and proceeded MA . in 1623 . The professorship of Astronomy at Gresham college becoming ...
... London in 1597 ; and was admit- ted a commoner of Trinity college , Oxford , in 1615 , where about four years after he took the degree of BA . and proceeded MA . in 1623 . The professorship of Astronomy at Gresham college becoming ...
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... London in 1629. After in music by the university of Oxford , on the serving as a soldier in the Netherlands and America , be returned home ; and by the pa- tronage of Sir William Dugdale procured the employment of blue mantle in the ...
... London in 1629. After in music by the university of Oxford , on the serving as a soldier in the Netherlands and America , be returned home ; and by the pa- tronage of Sir William Dugdale procured the employment of blue mantle in the ...
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... London , 1654 , in particular attracted considerable attention ; containing a more exact account of the anatomy and functions of the liver than had hitherto ap- peared : and the name of the author has been attached to a part supposed to ...
... London , 1654 , in particular attracted considerable attention ; containing a more exact account of the anatomy and functions of the liver than had hitherto ap- peared : and the name of the author has been attached to a part supposed to ...
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