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Bishop Wilkins College No.58 is a Rosicrucian College of the SRIA meeting in Cheshire, within the Province of Western Counties and North Wales. == College history == The College was founded on September 7, 1994 and currently meets three times in each year on the 4th Tuesday in April, 3rd Tuesday in September and 1st Wednesday in December. It takes its name from John Wilkins, Bishop of Chester. Wilkins was educated at Magdalen, Oxford and in 1648 he became warden of Wadham College. In 1659 he was appointed as Master of Trinity College, Cambridge by Richard Cromwell. In 1668 he became Bishop of Chester. A champion of science, he expounded the discoveries and theories of Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler. He was a founder and first Secretary of the Royal Society. Wilkins died in 1672 in London. The College motto is "Venite Gradatim Repetamus Opera Dei" (Come, let us gradually seek the works of God). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bishop Wilkins College」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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