William Whiston (1667-1752)
English divine who succeeded Isaac Newton as the Lucasian Professor at Cambridge; author
of New Theory of the Earth (1696); with his brother George he
published a Latin translation of the Patmut iwn Hayots by the
Armenian historian Mosis Khorenaci (1736).
English divine who succeeded Isaac Newton as the Lucasian Professor at Cambridge; author
of New Theory of the Earth (1696); with his brother George he
published a Latin translation of the Patmut iwn Hayots by the
Armenian historian Mosis Khorenaci (1736).