Keill

John Keill

Born: 1 Dec 1671 in Edinburgh, Scotland
Died: 31 Aug 1721 in Oxford, England

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John Keill studied at Edinburgh under David Gregory and went to Oxford with him. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1700 and professor of astronomy at Oxford in 1712. He lectured at Oxford on experimental philosophy.

Keill acted as a propagator of Newton's philosophy and argued against Whiston and others. He claimed that Leibniz had plagiarised Newton's invention of the calculus and he served as Newton's avowed Champion .

Keill wrote in Introductio ad veram (published in Leiden in 1725)

The only true Philosophers are those who would account for all Effects and Phenomena by the known established Laws of Motion and Mechanics.
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References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. F Manuel, Portrait of Isaac Newton (Cambridge, 1968). 
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