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Edward Bernard (1638–1697) was an English scholar and Savilian professor of astronomy at the University of Oxford, from 1673 to 1691.〔http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Societies/Savilian.html〕 ==Life== He was born at Paulerspury, Northamptonshire.〔http://www.freewebs.com/sochistastro/Survey%20Pages/northamptonshire.htm〕 He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St John's College, Oxford, where he was a scholar in 1655; he became a Fellow in 1658, and graduated M.A. in 1662.〔''Concise Dictionary of National Biography''〕〔Mordechai Feingold, ''Oriental Studies'', p. 491 in Trevor Henry Aston, Nicholas Tyacke (editors), ''The History of the University of Oxford: Volume IV: Seventeenth-Century Oxford''(1984).〕 He began to teach astronomy as deputy to Christopher Wren, then Savilian professor. This was from 1669, the year in which Wren became Surveyor-General of the King's Works. Eventually Wren was too busy, and resigned the chair.〔http://www.arct.cam.ac.uk/personal-page/james/phd/wren/architect.html〕 In 1673 he became Savilian professor, Fellow of the Royal Society, and chaplain to Peter Mews. In 1676 he went to Paris, as tutor to Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton and George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland.〔 From the 1670s he built up good contacts with European scholars. He corresponded with Hiob Ludolf, and met his nephew Heinrich Wilhelm Ludolf in Oxford.〔http://dspace.lib.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2297/5186/1/KJ00000706278.pdf, p. 14.〕 He visited Pierre-Daniel Huet,〔''Memoirs of the life of Peter Daniel Huet, Bishop of Avranches, written by himself'' (1810), translation by John Aikin, vol. II p. 188; (online text ).〕 and corresponded with Jean Mabillon and Pasquier Quesnel.〔Schmitz du Moulm H. , ''Un correspondant anglais de Quesnel: Lettres de Q à Edward Bernard, professeur d'astronomie à Oxford'', Lias, 2 (1975), 281–312.〕 He observed the comet of 1680 and corresponded about it with John Flamsteed.〔Mordechai Feingold, ''Mathematical Sciences and New Philosophies'', p. 384 in Trevor Henry Aston, Nicholas Tyacke (editors), ''The History of the University of Oxford: Volume IV: Seventeenth-Century Oxford''(1984).〕 In 1691 he became rector of Brightwell.〔http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43247〕 His biography was written by his friend Thomas Smith.〔''Vita clarissimi & doctissimi viri, Edwardi Bernardi'' (1704)〕〔Joseph M. Levine, ''The Battle of the Books: History and Literature in the Augustan Age'' (1994), p. 69.〕 He died in Oxford on 12 January 1697, and was buried four days later in St John's College chapel.〔ODNB〕 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「Edward Bernard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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