Seth Ward was an English mathematician, astronomer, and bishop.
Bishop Ward, portrait by John Greenhill
John Wilkins
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John Wilkins was an English Anglican clergyman, natural philosopher, and author, and was one of the founders of the Royal Society. He was Bishop of Chester from 1668 until his death.
Seth Ward (bishop of Salisbury)
…of Hobbes, particularly after Leviathan was released. A small part of the debate with John Webster launched by the Vindiciae academiarum he wrote with John Wilkins which also incorporated an attack on William Dell. In 1659, Ward was appointed President of Trinity College, Oxford, but not having the statutory…
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An 18th-century engraving of John Wilkins, Chester
Wilkins' signature as Secretary, signing off the 1667 accounts of the Royal Society, from the minutes book
Frontispiece of John Wilkins "An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language" (1668)