John Blagrave
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John Blagrave of Reading was an English Tudor mathematician, astronomer and designer of astronomical and mathematical instruments. His astrolabe designs, which he described in his writings, were advan
Drawing of the funerary monument to John Blagrave in St Laurence's Church, Reading. Commissioned by Blagrave, the monument shows him surrounded by five female statuettes holding the five platonic solids.
St John's College, Oxford
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St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. Founded as a men's college in 1555, it has been coeducational since 1979. Its founder, Sir Thomas White, intended to provide a s
John Blagrave
…sometime in the 1560s. The Blagraves were a branch of that landed gentry family of Calcot Park, Berkshire. He was educated in Reading School and went to St John's College, Oxford for an education in mathematics, though he never received a degree. Blagrave married the widow Dorothy Gunter (daughter of Simon Gunter of Milton…
Canterbury Quad
Thomas White, founder of the college
The Chapel facing west
Thomas White Quad