LORD BYRON and his TIMES
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| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Whiston, William, 1667-1752 NRA: Whiston William (1667-1752) Chaplain to Bishop of Norwich scientist DNB: Whiston, William (1667-1752), natural philosopher and theologian LBT ID: WiWhist1752 VIAF ID: 36927363 LOC ID: n80006240 | B/BAP: 1667-12-09 DIED: 1752-08-22 |
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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). | |
REFERENCES TO William Whiston: Lord Byron to John Murray, 2 January 1817 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1:
¶ 7 Lord Byron to John Murray, 2 April 1817 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.;
with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. XVIII. 1789 Found 1:
¶ n1 Sir Walter Scott to John Gibson Lockhart, 30 October 1828 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1:
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