Nathanael Carpenter
Nathanael Carpenter (7 February 1589 – c. 1628) was an English
philosopher, and geographer.[1]
Life
He was son of John Carpenter,
Calvinism
.
Matthew Sutcliffe nominated him a member of Chelsea College, and Archbishop James Ussher brought him to Ireland, where he was appointed schoolmaster of the king's wards in Dublin (wards being minors of property whose parents were Roman Catholics). Carpenter's death is said to have occurred at Dublin in the beginning of 1628, and his funeral sermon was preached by Robert Ussher.
Works
His earliest work Philosophia libera triplici exercitationum decade proposita was an attack on
St. Mary's, Oxford. The dedication by N. H. was to Thomas Winniffe
, and asserts that but for a kinsman the manuscript might have been lost on the Dutch shores, as Carpenter's works on optics were in the Irish Sea.
References
- ^ Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1887). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 9. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Chalmers, Alexander (1813). The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing An Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time. Vol. VIII. p. 273. gives his birth date as 7 February 1588 and states that he was born in North-Lew, West Devon district of the county of Devon, "not Northlegh."
- See also
- Madan, Falconer (1895). The Early Oxford Press: A Bibliography of Printing and Publishing at Oxford, 1468–1640. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Carpenter, Nathanael". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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