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WHICHCOTE (or WHITCHCOTE), BENJAMIN

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 588 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WHICHCOTE (or WHITCHCOTE), See also:BENJAMIN (16o9-1683)•, See also:English divine and philosopher, was See also:born at Whichcote See also:Hall, Stoke, See also:Shropshire, and educated at See also:Emmanuel See also:College, See also:Cam-See also:bridge, where he became See also:fellow in 1633. He was ordained in 1636, and appointed shortly afterwards to be See also:Sunday afternoon ' Afterwards broken up into three parts published separately: (1) the See also:History of Scientific Ideas (1858), substantially a See also:reproduction of the first See also:part of the See also:Philosophy; (2) the Novum organum renovatum (1858), containing the second part of the same.See also:work, but without the See also:historical See also:review of opinions, which was issued with large additions as (3) the Philosophy of Discoveryr(i86o). lecturer at Trinity See also:Church, See also:Cambridge. In 1643 he received the rectory of See also:North Cadbury, See also:Somerset, and in the following See also:year he was appointed See also:provost of See also:King's College, Cambridge, in See also:place of See also:Samuel See also:Collins who was ejected. On resigning North Cadbury in 1649 he became See also:rector of See also:Milton, See also:Cambridgeshire. In 165o he was See also:vice-See also:chancellor of Cambridge University. See also:Cromwell in 1655 consulted him upon the question of extending tolerance to the See also:Jews. His Puritan views lost him the provostship of King's College at the Restoration of 166o, but on complying with the See also:Act of Uniformity he was appointed to the living of St See also:Anne's, Blackfriars, See also:London. In 1668 he became See also:vicar of St See also:Lawrence Jewry, London. He is regarded as the founder of the important school of Cambridge Platonists. His See also:works, chiefly theological See also:treatises and sermons, were all published posthumously. He died in May 1683.

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John See also:Tulloch, Rational See also:Theology, ii. 59-84 (1874) ; and Masters in English Theology, edited by A. See also:Barry (1877).

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