John Greaves
John Greaves (1602 – 8 October 1652) was an English mathematician, astronomer and antiquarian.Educated at Balliol College, Oxford, he was elected a Fellow of Merton College in 1624. He studied Persian and Arabic, acquired a number of old books and manuscripts for archbishop William Laud (some still in Merton College Library), and wrote a treatise (in Latin) on the Persian language. He travelled in Italy and the Levant from 1636 to 1640 and made a survey of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
He was Gresham Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, and Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford University, and collected astrolabes and astronomical measuring devices (now in the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford). He was particularly interested in the study of weights and measures, and wrote a treatise on the Roman foot and denarius, and was a keen numismatist. In 1645 he attempted a reform of the Julian calendar, which was not adopted.
During the English Civil War he supported Charles I, who stayed at Merton College while in Oxford, but lost his academic positions at Oxford in 1647 through the animosity of Nathaniel Brent, Warden of Merton College and a Parliamentarian. Provided by Wikipedia
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Elementa linguae Persicae by Greaves, John, 1602-1652
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Pyramidographia, or, A description of the pyramids in Ægypt by Greaves, John, 1602-1652
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Miscellaneous works of Mr. John Greaves, professor of Astronomy in the University of Oxford: ... I. Pyramidographia; ... II. A discourse of the Roman foot, ... III. Tracts upon var... by Greaves, John, 1602-1652
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Miscellaneous works of Mr. John Greaves ... : many of which are now first published ... : to the whole is prefix'd, An historical and critical account of the life and writings of t... by Greaves, John, 1602-1652
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The origin and antiquity of our English weights and measures discover'd : by their near agreement with such standards that are now found in one of the Egyptian pyramids : together... by Greaves, John, 1602-1652
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A discourse of the Romane foot and denarius from whence, as from two principles, the measures and weights used by the ancients may be deduced / by Greaves, John, 1602-1652
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Elementa linguae Persicae by Greaves, John, 1602-1652
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Pyramidographia, or, A description of the pyramids in Ægypt by Greaves, John, 1602-1652
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Pyramidographia, or, A description of the pyramids in Ægypt by Greaves, John, 1602-1652
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A discourse of the Romane foot and denarius from whence, as from two principles, the measures and weights used by the ancients may be deduced / by Greaves, John, 1602-1652
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Elementa linguae Persicae by Greaves, John, 1602-1652
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A discourse of the Romane foot and denarius : from whence, as from two principles, the measures and weights used by the ancients may be deduced / by Greaves, John, 1602-1652
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A discourse of the Romane foot and denarius from whence, as from two principles, the measures and weights used by the ancients may be deduced / by Greaves, John, 1602-1652
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Elementa linguae Persicae by Greaves, John, 1602-1652
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Epochæ celebriores, astronomis, historicis, chronologis, Chataiorum, Syro-Græcorum, Arabum, Persarum, Chorasmiorum, usitatae: by Ulugh Beg, 1394-1449
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Anonymus persa de siglis Arabum & Persarum astronomicis
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The origine and antiquity of our English weights and measures discover'd By their near agreement with such standards that are now found in one of the Egyptian pyramides ... By Mr....
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The origine and antiquity of our English weights and measures discover'd by their near agreement with such standards that are now found in one of the Egyptian pyramides. ... The se...
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Astronomica quædam ex traditione Shah Cholgii Persæ una cum hypothesibus planetarum / by Maḥmūd Shāh Khuljī
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Astronomica quædam ex traditione Shah Cholgii Persæ una cum hypothesibus planetarum / by Maḥmūd Shāh Khuljī
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