Edmund Chilmead (1610 – 19 February 1654) was an English writer and translator, who produced both scholarly works and hack-writing. He is also known as a musician.

Life

He was born in 1610 at

Stow-on-the-Wold Stow-on-the-Wold is a market town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, on top of an 800-foot (244 m) hill at the junction of main roads through the Cotswolds, including the Fosse Way (A429), which is of Roman origin. The town was found ...

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. He studied at

Magdalen College, Oxford Magdalen College (, ) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. It was founded in 1458 by William of Waynflete. Today, it is the fourth wealthiest college, with a financial endowment of £332.1 million as of 2019 and one of the s ...

, where he graduated M.A. in 1631. He became a chaplain (canon) of

Christ Church, Oxford Christ Church ( la, Ædes Christi, the temple or house, '' ædēs'', of Christ, and thus sometimes known as "The House") is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, the college is uniqu ...

, in 1632, from where he was ejected in 1648. Chilmead died on 19 February 1653-4 in London, and was buried in the churchyard of

St Botolph's Aldersgate St Botolph without Aldersgate (also known as St Botolph's, Aldersgate) is a Church of England church in London dedicated to St Botolph. It was built just outside Aldersgate; one of the gates on London's wall in the City of London. The churc ...

Works

He produced the ''

editio princeps In classical scholarship, the ''editio princeps'' (plural: ''editiones principes'') of a work is the first printed edition of the work, that previously had existed only in manuscripts, which could be circulated only after being copied by hand. For ...

'' of the ''Chronographia'' of

Malalas John Malalas ( el, , ''Iōánnēs Malálas''; – 578) was a Byzantine chronicler from Antioch (now Antakya, Turkey). Life Malalas was of Syrian descent, and he was a native speaker of Syriac who learned how to write in Greek later in ...

. He translated: *

Robert Hues Robert Hues (1553 – 24 May 1632) was an English mathematician and geographer. He attended St. Mary Hall at Oxford, and graduated in 1578. Hues became interested in geography and mathematics, and studied navigation at a school set up by Walte ...

's ' (''A Learned Treatise of Globes,'' 1639) *the ''De Monarchia Hispanica'' of

Tommaso Campanella Tommaso Campanella (; 5 September 1568 – 21 May 1639), baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet. He was prosecuted by the Roman Inquisition for heresy in 1594 and w ...

(''Discourse Touching the Spanish Monarchy,'' 1654) * Jacques Ferrand on 'erotic melancholy', *the ''Riti Ebraici'' of

Leon of Modena Leon de Modena or in Hebrew name Yehudah Aryeh Mi-Modena (1571–1648) was a Jewish scholar born in Venice to a family whose ancestors migrated to Italy after an expulsion of Jews from France. Life He was a precocious child and grew up to be a re ...

('',' 1650) *the ''Curiositez'' of Jacques Gaffarel, (''Unheard-of Curiosities Concerning the Talismanical Sculpture of the Persians,'' 1650) and other works. He produced a catalogue of the Greek manuscripts in the

Bodleian Library The Bodleian Library () is the main research library of the University of Oxford, and is one of the oldest libraries in Europe. It derives its name from its founder, Sir Thomas Bodley. With over 13 million printed items, it is the second- ...

. He was a clerical defender of

astrology Astrology is a range of Divination, divinatory practices, recognized as pseudoscientific since the 18th century, that claim to discern information about human affairs and terrestrial events by studying the apparent positions of Celestial o ...

, Keith Thomas, ''Religion and the Decline of Magic'' (1971), p. 451 of Penguin edition. in his translation of Gaffarel. Anthony Wood described him as "a choice mathematician, a noted critic, and one that understood several tongues, especially the Greek, very well" (Wood, ''Ath. Oxon.,'' 3.350–51)

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References

* *''Concise Dictionary of National Biography'' *Mordechai Feingold, Penelope M. Gouk, ''An early critique of Bacon's Sylva Sylvarum: Edmund Chilmead's treatise on sound'', Annals of Science, Volume 40, Issue 2 March 1983, pp. 139–157 {{DEFAULTSORT:Chilmead, Edmund 1610 births 1654 deaths English classical scholars People from Stow-on-the-Wold