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circulated some doggerel about it: "Savilian Bernard's a right learned man;/Josephus he will finish when he can." His transcriptions and translations were later used by
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Much of Bernard's scholarly work remained as book annotations, and came back to the Bodleian when it purchased those books from his library after his death.
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A Catalogue of Books, in all Branches of Literature, both Ancient & Modern ... on sale at E. Jeans's, bookseller ... Norwich
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in the 1680s. The geometrical work remained fragmentary, while the Josephus edition was heavily annotated but incomplete.
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This article is about seventeenth-century English scholar Edward Bernard. For the American actor, see
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Un correspondant anglais de Quesnel: Lettres de Q à Edward Bernard, professeur d'astronomie à Oxford
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He died in Oxford on 12 January 1697, and was buried four days later in St John's College chapel.
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Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ in unum collecti, cum indice alphabetico
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Sharpe, Richard (1 December 2005). "Thomas Tanner (1674–1735), the 1697 Catalogue, and
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Flavii Josephi Antiquitatum Judaicarum libri quatuor priores, et pars magna quinti
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Memoirs of the life of Peter Daniel Huet, Bishop of Avranches, written by himself
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Recent sources claim that his assertion that tenth-century Egyptian astronomer
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The History of the University of Oxford: Volume IV: Seventeenth-Century Oxford
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The History of the University of Oxford: Volume IV: Seventeenth-Century Oxford
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The 'Arabick' Interest of the Natural Philosophers in 17th-Century England
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Arabick Learning in the Correspondence of the Royal Society, 1660–1677
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The Battle of the Books: History and Literature in the Augustan Age
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The Lives of Dr. Edward Pocock, the celebrated orientalist
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Orbis eruditi literatura à charactere Samaritico deducta
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Vita clarissimi & doctissimi viri, Edwardi Bernardi
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English scholar and Savilian professor of astronomy
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Index

Ed Bernard
Savilian professor of astronomy
University of Oxford
Paulerspury
Merchant Taylors' School
St John's College, Oxford
Christopher Wren
Surveyor-General of the King's Works
Fellow of the Royal Society
Peter Mews
Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton
George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland
Hiob Ludolf
Heinrich Wilhelm Ludolf
Pierre-Daniel Huet
Jean Mabillon
Pasquier Quesnel
comet of 1680
John Flamsteed
Brightwell
Thomas Smith

Charles Morton
Apollonius of Perga
Leiden
Joseph Scaliger
Levinus Warner
Bodleian Library
Jacobus Golius
Narcissus Marsh

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