Edmund Chilmead
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Edmund Chilmead was an English writer and translator, who produced both scholarly works and hack writing. He is also known as a musician.

He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford
Magdalen College, Oxford
Magdalen College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. As of 2006 the college had an estimated financial endowment of £153 million. Magdalen is currently top of the Norrington Table after over half of its 2010 finalists received first-class degrees, a record...

, where he graduated M.A. in 1631. He became a chaplain (canon) of Christ Church, Oxford
Christ Church, Oxford
Christ Church or house of Christ, and thus sometimes known as The House), is one of the largest constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England...

, in 1632, from where he was ejected in 1648.

He produced the editio princeps
Editio princeps
In classical scholarship, editio princeps is a term of art. It means, roughly, the first printed edition of a work that previously had existed only in manuscripts, which could be circulated only after being copied by hand....

 of the Chronographia of Malalas. He translated:
  • Robert Hues
    Robert Hues
    Robert Hues 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 Walter Raleigh. During a trip to Newfoundland, he made observations which caused...

    's Tractatus de globis (A Learned Treatise of Globes, 1639)
  • the De Monarchia Hispanica of Tommaso Campanella
    Tommaso Campanella
    Tommaso Campanella OP , baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella, was an Italian philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet.-Biography:...

     (Discourse Touching the Spanish Monarchy, 1654)
  • Jacques Ferrand
    Jacques Ferrand
    Jacques Ferrand was a French physician born around 1575 in Agen, France. He is famous for his treatise on melancholia, Traicte de l'essence et guerison de l'amour ou de la melancholie erotique, an early psychological work on melancholia. It was for this work he was put on trial for by the...

     on 'erotic melancholy',
  • the Riti Ebraici of Leon of Modena
    Leon of Modena
    Leon Modena or Yehudah Aryeh Mi-modena was a Jewish scholar born in Venice of a notable French family that had migrated to Italy after an expulsion of Jews from France.-Life:...

     (The history of the rites, customes, and manner of life, of the present Jews, throughout the world,' 1650)
  • the Curiositez of Jacques Gaffarel
    Jacques Gaffarel
    Jacques Gaffarel was a French scholar and astrologer. He followed the family tradition of studying medicine, and then became a priest, but mainly developed his interests in the fields of natural history and Oriental occultism, gaining fluency in the Hebrew, Persian, and Arabic languages.His...

    , (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
Bodleian Library
The Bodleian Library , the main research library of the University of Oxford, is one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and in Britain is second in size only to the British Library...

. He was a clerical defender of astrology
Astrology
Astrology consists of a number of belief systems which hold that there is a relationship between astronomical phenomena and events in the human world...

, in his translation of Gaffarel.

Anthony Wood
Anthony Wood
Anthony Wood or Anthony à Wood was an English antiquary.-Early life:Anthony Wood was the fourth son of Thomas Wood , BCL of Oxford, where Anthony was born...

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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