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John Feild (Puritan)
John Field (1545–1588), also called John Fielde, was a British Puritan clergyman and controversialist. Life When he was ordained by Edmund Grindal in 1566 at the age of 21, he was called a bachelor of arts of Christ Church, Oxford. Field's ordination was irregular, as the canonical age for ordination in the British church was 24 (or 23, if the person shows an unusual gift). In 1568, he became a lecturer, curate, and schoolmaster in London, which was his native city. There he quickly became a leader of the most extreme branch of the Puritan movement. He was so strident in his criticisms of the Church of England that he was debarred from preaching for eight years, from 1571 to 1579. He was insistent on changing the Act of Uniformity to purge what he regarded as Roman Catholic tendencies in British practice. When he was unable to effect any changes, he wrote '' A View of Popish Abuses yet remaining in the English Church'' in 1572. The tract is bitter and harsh in its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Feild (proto-Copernican)
John Field or Feild (1520/1530–1587), was a "proto- Copernican" English astronomer. Field was the son of Richard Field (d. 1542). He was born, it is supposed, at Ardsley in the West Riding of Yorkshire between 1520 and 1530. He received a liberal education, and Joseph Hunter, his descendant, conjectured that part of it was gained under the patronage of Alured Comyn, Prior of Nostell, from which house the cell of Woodkirk, near Ardsley, depended. Anthony à Wood believed that he studied at Oxford. He was living in London at the date of his first ''Ephemeris'' (1556), and appears, from a remark in a manuscript in Lambeth Palace Library, to have been a public instructor in science. Publications He published: * ''Ephemeris anni 1557 currentis juxta Copernici et Reinholdi canones … per J. Feild … ad Meridianum Londinensem … supputata. Adjecta est Epistola J. Dee, qua vulgares istos Ephemeridum fictores reprehendit'', London, 1556 * ''Ephemerides trium annorum, an. 15 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
