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Peter Turner (mathematician)

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in his time as Chancellor of the University of Oxford, working with
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from 1631 to 1649. In 1641 he enlisted in the royalist forces of
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London
England
University of Oxford
Mathematician
Gresham College
University of Oxford
English
mathematician
St Mary Hall, Oxford
Christ Church, Oxford
Merton College, Oxford
geometry
Gresham College
William Laud
Brian Twyne
Savilian Chair of Geometry
University of Oxford
John Byron, 1st Baron Byron
First English Civil War
Stow-on-the-Wold
Parliamentary visitation of Oxford
Southwark
Gresham Professors of Geometry



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