John Craig (physician)
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John Craig (died 1620) was a Scottish physician and astronomer. He was physician to
Physician
He was born in Scotland, the son of an Edinburgh tailor and merchant Robert Craig and
Craig attended Agnes Keith, Countess of Moray in her final illness in Edinburgh in 1588, with the surgeon Gilbert Primose and the apothecary Thomas Diksoun.[3]
He accompanied King James to London on James's accession to the throne of England. On 20 June 1603 James made him first physician with an anuual salary of £100. His long-serving German doctor Martin Schöner was also appointed first physician with the same salary on 6 July.[4]
In 1604, he was admitted a member of the College of Physicians of London.
He was incorporated M.D. at the University of Oxford on 30 August 1605; was named an elect of the College of Physicians on 11 December the same year; was consiliarius in 1609 and 1617; and died before 10 April 1620, when John Argent was chosen an elect in his place.[5]
Astronomy and mathematics
According to Richard A. Jarrell:
Much of the transition … to the Copernican system … occurred during the last third of the sixteenth century. To a surprising extent, this transition was a product of German-speaking astronomers, and those foreigners educated by or in contact with them. Tycho, although a Dane, was as much a part of German astronomy as the Scots
Hagecius).[10]
Craig was an academic in Germany for an extended period. He was in
Craig may have been the person who gave
Napier himself informed Tycho Brahe, via Craig, of his discovery, some twenty years before it was made public.[11]
References
Citations
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6575. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ Brian Rice, Enrique González-Velasco, Alexander Corrigan, The Life and Works of John Napier (Springer, 2017), p. 32.
- ^ Alexander Macdonald, Letters to the Argyll Family (Edinburgh, 1839), pp. 85-6.
- ^ Thomas Rymer, Foedera, vol. 16 (London, 1715), pp. 514–5, 537–8.
- ^ Cooper 1887, p. 447.
- ISBN 0-14-303476-6, p. 106
- ^ Commercium litterarium clarorum virorum, 2 vols. (Brunswick, 1737-8).
- ^ Adam Mosley, Bearing the Heavens: Tycho Brahe and the astronomical community of the late sixteenth century (2007), p. 159.
- ^ a b Andrew Pyle (editor), Dictionary of Seventeenth Century British Philosophers (2000), article on Craig, pp. 218–9.
- ^ Richard A. Jarrell, The Contemporaries of Tycho Brahe, p. 22, in Reni Taton, Curtis Wilson (editors), Planetary Astronomy from the Renaissance to the Rise of Astrophysics, Part A, Tycho Brahe to Newton (2003).
- ^ a b Cooper 1887, p. 448.
Sources
- Anderson, William (1877). "Craig, John". The Scottish nation: or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. Vol. 1. A. Fullarton & co. pp. 688–690. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Chambers, Robert (1853). Thomson, Thomas (ed.). A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen. New ed., rev. under the care of the publishers. With a supplementary volume, continuing the biographies to the present time. Vol. 2. Glasgow: Blackie. pp. 572–573. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Cooper, Thompson (1887). "Craig, John (d. 1620)". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 12. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 447–448. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cooper, Thompson (1887). "Craig, John (d. 1620)". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 12. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 447–448.