Mathematician:William Whiston

Mathematician
English theologian, historian, and mathematician, a leading figure in the popularisation of the ideas of Isaac Newton.

Best known for helping to instigate the Longitude Act in $1714$. Succeeded his mentor as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.

Nationality
English

History

 * Born: 9 December 1667 in Norton-juxta-Twycross, Leicestershire, England
 * 1686: Entered Clare College, Cambridge as a sizar
 * 1690: Awarded Bachelor of Arts (BA)
 * 1691: Elected Fellow
 * 1693: Elected probationary senior Fellow
 * 1693: Awarded Master of Arts (AM)
 * 1693: Ordained at Lichfield
 * 1694: Resigned his tutorship at Clare, and swapped positions with Richard Laughton, chaplain to John Moore
 * 1698: Given living of Lowestoft by Moore, where he became rector
 * 1699: Resigned his Fellowship of Clare College and left to marry
 * 1701: Resigned his living to become 's substitute, giving the Lucasian lectures at Cambridge
 * 1702: Succeeded as Lucasian professor
 * 1707: Became Boyle lecturer
 * 1710: Deprived of his professorship and expelled from the university
 * 1714: Instrumental in the passing of the Longitude Act
 * Died: 22 August 1752 in Lyndon, Rutland, England

Publications

 * 1696: A New Theory of the Earth from its Original to the Consummation of All Things


 * 1702: (translation of  by )
 * 1710: (translation of  by )


 * 1706: Essay on the Revelation of St John
 * 1707: Edited 's
 * 1712: A chart of the solar system showing numerous paths of comets (with )
 * 1717: Astronomical Principles of Religion
 * 1721: The Longitude and Latitude Found by the Inclinatory or Dipping Needle
 * 1727: Authentik Record belonging to the Old and New Testament (2 volumes)
 * 1730: Life of Samuel Clarke
 * 1737: Translation of the works of Josephus
 * 1732: Testimony of Phlegon Vindicated
 * 1745: Primitive New Testament
 * 1749--1750: Memoirs (3 volumes)