Mathematician:William Whiston

Mathematician

English theologian, historian, and mathematician, a leading figure in the popularisation of the ideas of Isaac Newton.

Best known for helping to instigate the Longitude Act in $1714$.

Succeeded his mentor Isaac Newton as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.

English

Born: 9 December 1667 in Norton-juxta-Twycross, Leicestershire, England
1686: Entered Clare College, Cambridge as a sizar
1690: Awarded Bachelor of Arts (BA)
1691: Elected Fellow
1693: Elected probationary senior Fellow
1693: Awarded Master of Arts (AM)
1693: Ordained at Lichfield
1694: Resigned his tutorship at Clare, and swapped positions with Richard Laughton, chaplain to John Moore
1698: Given living of Lowestoft by Moore, where he became rector
1699: Resigned his Fellowship of Clare College and left to marry
1701: Resigned his living to become Isaac Newton's substitute, giving the Lucasian lectures at Cambridge
1702: Succeeded Newton as Lucasian professor
1707: Became Boyle lecturer
1710: Deprived of his professorship and expelled from the university
1714: Instrumental in the passing of the Longitude Act
Died: 22 August 1752 in Lyndon, Rutland, England

1696: A New Theory of the Earth from its Original to the Consummation of All Things

1706: Essay on the Revelation of St John
1707: Edited Newton's Arithmetica Universalis
1712: A chart of the solar system showing numerous paths of comets (with John Senex)
1717: Astronomical Principles of Religion
1721: The Longitude and Latitude Found by the Inclinatory or Dipping Needle
1727: Authentik Record belonging to the Old and New Testament (2 volumes)
1730: Life of Samuel Clarke
1737: Translation of the works of Josephus
1732: Testimony of Phlegon Vindicated
1745: Primitive New Testament
1749--1750: Memoirs (3 volumes)