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Robert Payne (natural philosopher)

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Payne then returned to Oxford, as a canon of Christ Church from 1638-1648. He was created D.D. in 1642, and was deprived of his living in 1646. At this period Payne did what he could to circulate the ideas and manuscripts of Hobbes in Oxford, and to reduce the hostility of
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Scholarly debate continues as to the possible attribution of manuscripts from the Cavendish circle to Payne: the discussion goes deeper than handwriting, since Payne acted also as a copyist. One work, the
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Payne was not a published author: his significant work was left in manuscript. He undertook some chemical experiments with Newcastle in the 1630s. As reported later by Newcastle, one involved
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initially thought to be by Hobbes, is now thought by Timothy Raylor and Noel Malcolm to be by Payne. Mordechai Feingold suggests another candidate.
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The Life of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, to which is added The true relation of my birth, breeding and life
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The mechanisation of Aristotelianism: the late Aristotelian setting of Thomas Hobbes' natural philosophy
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in 1648 saw Payne deprived of his college position. He ended his life with family, in Abingdon.
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The Light of nature: essays in the history and philosophy of science presented to A. C. Crombie
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In 1630 Payne entered the Cavendish orbit with his nomination as rector of
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in 1611, and graduated B.A. in 1614. He was a contemporary as student of
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List of Some Distinguished Persons Educated at Abingdon School 1563-1855
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led him out of academia. He was taken on as chaplain, by April 1632, at
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English cleric and academic, natural philosopher and experimentalist
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Literary circles and cultural communities in Renaissance England
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by the Earl of Newcastle. A mathematical correspondence with
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The Dictionary of Seventeenth Century British Philosophers
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by his position as chaplain (with duties as secretary) to
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and experimentalist. He was associated with the so-called
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Cornelis Hendrik Leijenhorst; Cees Leijenhorst (2002).
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Robert Payne (mathematician)
Abingdon
natural philosopher
Welbeck Academy
William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Newcastle
Thomas Hobbes
Abingdon
John Roysse
Free School
Abingdon School
Christ Church, Oxford
William Backhouse
First English Civil War
Pembroke College
Gresham Professor of Astronomy
Tormarton
Charles Cavendish
Welbeck Abbey
Prince of Wales
Gilbert Sheldon
Parliamentary visitation of Oxford
saltpetre
brimstone
indoor firework
Galileo
Benedetto Castelli
fluid mechanics
Marin Mersenne
List of Old Abingdonians

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