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Whiston, William
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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Divine and mathematician, born in Leicestershire; educated at Clare College, Cambridge, of which he became a Fellow; gained reputation from his "Theory of the Earth"; succeeded Sir Isaac Newton as Lucasian professor, but was discharged from the office and expelled from the university for Arianism; removed to London, where he lived a separatist from the Church, and died a Baptist; wrote "Primitive Christianity," and translated "Josephus"; he was a crotchety but a conscientious man (1667-1752).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Whiston, William'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/w/whiston-william.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Whiston, William'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/w/whiston-william.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
