Learning Physics in ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ in the 1690s
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(2024): 22
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I recently re-encountered a little octavo textbook in physics published in 1690, the Synopsis physicæ by a ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ man, Francis Willis. The author was from Thame, where his father—who had also attended the college—as the rector ran the local grammar school, an institution then under the college’s supervision. His textbook in physics is evidently the product of his reading and thinking for the MA, often the period in which students turned towards more in-depth study of, especially, natural philosophy.
A tornado, in Ralph Bohun’s A Discourse concerning the Origine and Properties of Wind (1671)
²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, BT3.248.11(2), p. 19