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'68 -Oxford's Savilian professor of geometry John Wallis publishes "The Arithmetic of Infinitesmals" which assigns numerical values to spatial indivisibles as a way to include negative and fractional exponents in determining ways to find a square whose area is equal to that of a given circle.

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Baden-Powell, father to the founder of the scouting movement, and Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford, deplored the violence of the debates surrounding phrenology.

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Baden-Powell, father to the founder of the scouting movement, and Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford, deplored the violence of the debates surrounding phrenology.

It’s all in your head: Phrenology and the Victorians 2008

It is for this, some say, that he was granted the Savilian Chair of geometry at Oxford in 1649 after his predecessor, Peter Turner, was dismissed for his royalist views.

Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001

It is for this, some say, that he was granted the Savilian Chair of geometry at Oxford in 1649 after his predecessor, Peter Turner, was dismissed for his royalist views.

Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001

It is for this, some say, that he was granted the Savilian Chair of geometry at Oxford in 1649 after his predecessor, Peter Turner, was dismissed for his royalist views.

Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001

Sir Henry Savile (1549-1622) thereupon appointed him in 1619 to the Savilian chair of astronomy just founded by him at Oxford;

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In 1619 he was appointed Savilian professor of geometry at Oxford, and resigned his professorship of Gresham College on the 25th of July 1620.

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Master's degree, to a Fellowship of All Souls, the next year began his friendship with John Evelyn, and he was subsequently chosen Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College [54] and Savilian Professor at Oxford.

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That no treason has been transacting nor any dangerous doctrine propounded, the guardian of the University has ample assurance in the presence of his very good friends, Dr. Wallis the Savilian Professor, and Dr. Wilkins the Protector's brother-in-law.

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