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). | |