Turner

Peter Turner

Born: 1586 in London, England
Died: 1652 in London, England

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Turner was educated at Oxford and succeeded Briggs to chairs in London and Oxford. Imprisoned after the battle of Edgehill, he lost his fellowship and his chair.

Turner's quality as a mathematician cannot be judged as he left no mathematical publications but we know he wrote very stylish Latin!

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References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. J Ward, Lives of the Professors of Gresham College (1740). 
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