For the American businessman and pharmacist, see John R. Caswell.
John Caswell (sometimes recorded as John Carswell) (1654 or 1655 – 28 April 1712) was an English mathematician who served as Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford from 1709 until his death.
John Caswell M.A., of Somerset by birth, of Wadham by education, a mathematician by discipline, a man upright, kindly and humble; after his unique knowledge had advanced him to the position of Savilian Professor of Astronomy, a much-lamented bodily infirmity took him away – alas – all too swiftly, on 28th April, in the year of our Lord 1712, and in the 56th year of his life. This his wife Elizabeth set up, the monument of her longed-for husband.
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^Henry, John (September 2010). "Keill, John (1671–1721)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 28 May 2012. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
^Baigent, Elizabeth (2004). "Adams, John (b. before 1670, d. 1738)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 28 May 2012. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
^"Robert Simson". School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews. August 1995. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
^"St Cross Church, Holywell: burials and inscriptions". Balliol College, Oxford. 9 October 2009. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
External linksedit
Letters to or mentioning Caswell from Early Modern Letters Online
Caswell's (1685) A brief but full account of the doctrine of trigonometry - Linda Hall Library
January 01, 1970
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