John Wilkins Summary

John Wilkins 1614-1672 English mathematician and inventor who studied at Oxford and became an Anglican clergyman. During the English Civil War he sided with parliament, which helped him obtain a Warde... Read more

John Wilkins was a man of often contested qualities and allegiances whose life illustrates the profoundly complex and turbulent culture of seventeenth-century England. Both the brother-in-law of Oli... Read more