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Seth Ward

Bishop of Salisbury, mathematician and astronomer

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Bishop of Salisbury, mathematician and astronomer

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Seth Ward was an English mathematician, astronomer, and bishop.

Occupation: mathematician, astronomer, university teacher, Anglican priest
Position held: Anglican Bishop of Exeter, Bishop of Salisbury, Savilian Professor of Astronomy, president
Citizenship: Kingdom of England
Born: 1617, April 1, 1617, April 16, 1617, April 1617
Died: January 6, 1689

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Seth Ward (1617 – 6 January 1689) was an English mathematician, astronomer, and bishop. Early life He 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. 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). Academic In the 1640s, he took instruction in mathematics from William Oughtred, and stayed with relations of Samuel Ward.

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