The Life and Times of John Wilkins by P. A. Wright Henderson is a biography of the seventeenth-century English clergyman and natural philosopher who served as Warden of Wadham College, Master of Trinity College, and Bishop of Chester. Wilkins was a founder of the Royal Society and a key figure in the new experimental science.
The book sets his career against the religious and political upheavals of the English Civil War and Restoration, illustrating the world of early modern learning. Wilkins’s interests ranged from astronomy to a universal language. This free EPUB edition presents the complete biography for readers of the history of science and seventeenth-century England.