| 词条 | Seth Ward (bishop of Salisbury) |
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Seth Ward (1617 – 6 January 1689) was an English mathematician, astronomer,[1] and bishop. Early lifeHe was born in Hertfordshire, and educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1636 and M.A. in 1640, becoming a Fellow in that year.[2][3] In 1643 he was chosen university mathematical lecturer, but he was deprived of his fellowship next year for opposing the Solemn League and Covenant (with Isaac Barrow, John Barwick and Peter Gunning).[3] AcademicIn the 1640s, he took instruction in mathematics from William Oughtred, and stayed with relations of Samuel Ward.[3][4] In 1649, he became Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford University, and gained a high reputation by his theory of planetary motion. It was propounded in the works entitled In Ismaelis Bullialdi astro-nomiae philolaicae fundamenta inquisitio brevis (Oxford, 1653), against the cosmology of Ismael Boulliau, and Astronomia geometrica (London, 1656) on the system of Kepler.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}[5] About this time he was engaged in a decades-long philosophical controversy with Thomas Hobbes:[6]{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} Seth Ward and John Wallis, both Savilian professors and members of the Anglican clergy, felt offended by the works of Hobbes, particularly after Leviathan was released.[6]{{rp|273}} A small part of the debate with John Webster launched by the Vindiciae academiarum he wrote with John Wilkins which also incorporated an attack on William Dell.[7] He was one of the original members of the Royal Society of London. In 1659, he was appointed President of Trinity College, Oxford, but not having the statutory qualifications he resigned in 1660.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} ChurchmanKing Charles II appointed him to the livings of St Lawrence Jewry in London, and Uplowman in Devonshire, in 1661. He also became dean of Exeter Cathedral (1661) and rector of St Breock, Cornwall in 1662. In the latter year he was consecrated Bishop of Exeter, and in 1667 he was translated to the see of Salisbury. The office of Chancellor of the Order of the Garter was conferred on him in 1671.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} In his diocese he showed great severity to nonconformists, and rigidly enforced the act prohibiting conventicles (unofficial religious meetings). He spent a great deal of money on the restoration of the cathedrals of Worcester and Salisbury. He died at Knightsbridge on 6 January 1689.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} References1. ^{{cite journal|last=Wright|first=Peter|title=Astrology and Science in Seventeenth-Century England|journal=Social Studies of Science|year=1975|pages=405|doi=10.1177/030631277500500402|volume=5}} 2. ^{{acad|id=WRT632S|name=Ward, Seth}} 3. ^1 2 Galileo project page 4. ^http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/oughtred.html 5. ^http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/rhatch/pages/11-ResearchProjects/boulliau/06rp-b-a-bio.htm 6. ^1 {{cite journal|title=Infinity and creation: the origin of the controversy between Thomas Hobbes and the Savilian Professors Seth Ward and John Wallis|journal=British Journal for the History of Science|date=September 1993|volume=26|issue=3|pages=271–279|author=Siegmund Probst|doi=10.1017/s0007087400031058}} 7. ^Allen G. Debus, Science and Education in the Seventeenth Century: The Webster-Ward Debate (1970).
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| title = Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford | years = 1649–1660 | before = John Greaves | after = Christopher Wren }}{{succession box | title = President of Trinity College, Oxford | years = 1659–1660 | before = William Hawes | after = Hannibal Potter }}{{s-rel|en}}{{succession box | title = Dean of Exeter | years = 1661–1662 | before = William Peterson | after = Edward Younge }}{{succession box | title = Bishop of Exeter | years = 1662–1667 | before = John Gauden | after = Anthony Sparrow }}{{succession box | title=Bishop of Salisbury | years=1667–1689 | before=Alexander Hyde | after=Gilbert Burnet }}{{s-end}}{{Deans of Exeter}}{{Bishops of Exeter}}{{Bishops of Salisbury}}{{Savilian Professors of Astronomy}}{{Chancellors of the Order of the Garter}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Ward, Seth}} 14 : 1617 births|1689 deaths|People from Hertfordshire|Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge|English astronomers|Deans of Exeter|Bishops of Exeter|Bishops of Salisbury|Fellows of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge|Original Fellows of the Royal Society|17th-century English mathematicians|17th-century Anglican bishops|Savilian Professors of Astronomy|Chancellors of the Order of the Garter |
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