Charles Scarborough
Charles Scarborough , also Scarburgh (born December 19, 1615 in St. Martin's in the Fields, London , † February 26, 1693 in London) was a British doctor and mathematician.
His father Edmund Scarborough (1584-1635) was a lawyer and army officer and settled from 1621 in Virginia . Charles Scarburgh attended St Paul's School in London and from 1633 the University of Cambridge (Gonville and Caius College, of which he was a fellow in 1640), where he obtained his bachelor's degree in 1637 and his master's degree in 1640. He studied medicine and mathematics there as a student of Seth Ward , using the Clavis Mathematica by William Oughtred , which they also attended together. Scarborough also gave lectures on mathematics at Cambridge based on the Clavis.
As part of the political upheaval, he lost his fellowship at Cambridge and went to Merton College in Oxford. Here he made friends with William Harvey and was his student. After his death, Harvey left him a velvet robe and surgical instruments made of silver. In 1646 he received his doctorate (MD) at Oxford and became a Fellow of Merton College. In 1649 he became a lecturer in anatomy at the Society of Barbers and Surgeons in London , which also commissioned his portrait. In 1656 he succeeded Harvey Lumleian as Lecturer at the College of Physicians.
In 1660 he became the personal physician of Charles II , who ennobled him in 1669. He was also under his successor Jacob II , with George of Denmark and Mary II. Court doctor, whereby an alleged star phenomenon in the hunting dogs was reported by him. He was a founding member and Fellow of the Royal Society and he was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (1650). In 1682 he accompanied the Duke of York on the Gloucester to Scotland and was only barely rescued from drowning when their ship was shipwrecked. From 1685 to 1687 he was a Member of Parliament for Camelford in Cornwall. In 1691 he retired. He is buried in Cranford, Middlesex.
He wrote an anatomy book and translated and commented on the first six books of Euclid 's Elements (published by his son in 1705). Scarborough was also interested in natural history. A catalog of his mathematical library was printed in 1695.
Scarborough was a friend of the poet Abraham Cowley , who wrote a poem about him.
His brother Edmund Scarborough (1617–1671) was like his father a settler in Virginia.
Fonts
- Syllabus Musculorum , 1690.
literature
- Norman Moore : Scarburgh, Charles. In: Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 50, Smith, Elder & Co., London 1897, pp. 397 f. ( online ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ To Dr. Scarborough. The Abraham Cowley Text and Image Archive, accessed December 25, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scarborough, Charles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Scarburgh, Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 19, 1615 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 26, 1693 |
| Place of death | London |