John Greaves 1602-1652
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John GREAVES 1602-52
Biographical Note
Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford, orientalist.
Books
A library of more than 375 volumes, valued at £59 11s 4d, was seized from his London house by the London Committee for Sequestration in 1643.
Sources
- Maddison, Francis. "Greaves, John (1602–1652), astronomer and orientalist." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Roy, I. The libraries of Edward, 2nd Viscount Conway, and others, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research 43 (1968), 35-46