HENRY SAVILLE stipple engraving by Harding (del) R. Clamp (engraved) published 1796,with hand colouring after portrait by Marcus Gheeraerts (Garret) the Younger. Sir Henry Savile 30 November 1549 – 19 February 1622. English Scholar,translator of the Bible and mathematician who In 1619 founded and endowed a chair in astronomy and a chair in geometry at Oxford,both bearing his name. The Savilian Professor of Astronomy and Savilian Professor of Geometry still exist today in Oxford as a position of high esteem | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Stewart, Paul D. |
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