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Chair, 1649–61) sometime after 1682. It was Sir Christopher Wren (Astronomy, 1661-1673), however, who gave the first extensive contribution to the library, leaving his astronomy and geometry books to it when he retired from the Chair. A catalogue of the Savile library appeared in Dr. Edward Bernard's (Astronomy chair, 1673–91)
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Nearly all of the seventeenth-century Savilian professors added to the library. Dr. Peter Turner (Geometry Chair, 1631–48) bequeathed Greek manuscripts, John Greaves (Astronomy Chair, 1643-9) added some of his own papers. Part of the Savilian library might also have come from Dr. Seth Ward (Astronomy
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In 1619, after founding two lectureships in geometry and astronomy, Savile donated a library to the university. It was a collection of mathematical works, including the related subjects of optics, harmonics, mechanics, cosmography, the applied sciences of surveying, navigation, and fortification, and
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In 1592 he married Margaret, daughter of George Dacre, of Chesham. In 1604 their only son died, and Savile is thought to have been induced by this loss to devote the bulk of his fortune to the promotion of learning. His surviving child Elizabeth married Sir John Sedley and was mother of Sir
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cost him £8,000 and did not sell well. However, it was the most considerable work of pure learning undertaken in England in his time, as it involved consulting French Chrysostomians and the despatching of young researchers to the
380:. Oxonii: Excudebant Iohannes Lichfield, & Iacobus Short, 1621. ('Thirteen introductory lectures on the beginning of the Elements of Euclid, held at Oxford in 1620'.) It was Savile who first traced the hand of 999: 430:
In 1835 Savile's library was moved to the south-east corner of the Bodleian quadrangle, where it remained until 1884, when the Savilian professors agreed to hand over its administration to the
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Savile was keen to impart his understanding of mathematics to his students at Oxford, and in founding the Geometry chair he gave thirteen preparatory lectures on the original books of
238:(1545–1607), was a high prerogative lawyer and one of the barons of the exchequer, who in 1606 affirmed the right of the King to impose import and export duties on his own authority. 185:. He proved a successful and autocratic head of house, generally unpopular with Fellows and undergraduates, but under him the college flourished. His translation of four books of the 336:
in eight folio volumes was published in 1610–1613. It was printed by the king's printer on a private press erected at the expense of Sir Henry, who imported the type. The
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Sir Henry Savile has sometimes been confounded with another Henry Savile, called Long Harry (1570–1617), who gave currency to the forged addition to the
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of the university. In 1578 he travelled on the continent of Europe, where he collected manuscripts, and is said to have been employed by
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Womersley, David (August 1991). "Sir Henry Savile's Translation of Tacitus and the Political Interpretation of Elizabethan Texts".
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originally meant to forge, fashion or prepare any thing: According to William Whitaker, the sense of 'to publish' was coined by
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The edition published in England, until then the only one containing all the extant works attributed to Euclid, was that of Dr
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at Oxford, both bearing his name. He died at Eton on 19 February 1622, and is buried there. A fine mural monument to him in
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His brother, Thomas Savile (died 1593), was also a member of Merton College and had some reputation as a scholar.
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The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics: The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1585–1597
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offers views of contemporary Merton and Eton and references to his literary achievements (notably Chrysostom).
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He was soon released, and his friendship with the faction of Essex went far to gain him the favour of
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John Lichfield was printer to the university of Oxford from 1617 to 1635, and was also yeoman
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Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ in unum collecti, cum indice alphabetico
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
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MS Ff.1.25.1 as his source for this, which was a copy of a copy of the original manuscript.
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In 1596 Savile produced the first printed edition of the first four books of the
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Praelectiones tresdecim in principium elementorum Euclidis, Oxonii habitae MCDXX
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Henry Savile's Latin version of the Almagest of Ptolemy, vol. 1, from
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a quantity of fine printed books, primarily from the 16th century.
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Title page of Savile's introductory lectures on Euclid's
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Catalogi Librorum Manuscriptorum Angliae and Hiberniae
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Index

Sir Henry Savile
Henry Savile (disambiguation)

Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger
Warden
Merton College, Oxford
Provost of Eton
Savilian chairs of Astronomy
of Geometry
Oxford University
New Testament
Parliament of England
Bossiney
Cornwall
Dunwich
Suffolk
Stainland
Halifax, West Yorkshire
Methley
Brasenose College, Oxford
Merton College
Greek
Ptolemy
Almagest
Junior Proctor
Queen Elizabeth
Low Countries
Lord Burghley
John Chamber
Thomas Digges

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