Nathaniel Nye
Biography
Nye was baptised in St Martin in the Bull Ring, Birmingham on 18 April 1624, and was probably the son of a governor of the town's King Edward's School.[1]
In 1642 he published A New Almanacke and Prognostication calculated exactly for the faire and populous Towne of Birmicham in Warwickshire, where the Pole is elevated above the Horizon 52 degrees and 38 minutes, and may serve for any part of this Kingdome, in which he described himself as a "Practitioner of Astronomy".[2] The dedication to this book suggests that he must have issued an earlier almanac in 1640, possibly from Arnhem in the Netherlands, when he would have been aged 17.[3] A further almanac was published in 1643, in which he was described as "Mathematitian, Practitioner of Astronomy", and two more were forthcoming in 1645.[1]
Nye also developed an interest in guns – Birmingham's principal trade during the
Nothing is known of Nye's life after 1647, though further editions of The Art of Gunnery were produced in 1648 and 1670.[1]
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g Porter 2008
- ^ Hill 1907, p. iv
- ^ Hill 1907, p. vi
- ^ Donagan 2008, fig 8
- ^ Donagan 2008, p. 84
- ^ Donagan 2008, p. 85
Bibliography
- Donagan, Barbara (2008), War in England 1642-1649, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-928518-1, retrieved 9 August 2009
- Hill, Joseph (1907), The book makers of old Birmingham: authors, printers, and book sellers, New York: B. Franklin (published 1971), ISBN 0-8337-1706-5
- Porter, Stephen (2008), "Nye, Nathaniel (bap. 1624), mathematician and master gunner", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.), Oxford University Press, retrieved 9 August 2009
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