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Walter Warner (1563–1643) was an English mathematician and scientist. ==Life== He was born in Leicestershire and educated at Merton College, Oxford, graduating B.A. in 1578.〔Andrew Pyle (editor), ''Dictionary of Seventeenth Century British Philosophers'' (2000), article Warner, pp. 858–862.〕 At the end of the sixteenth century he belonged to the circle round Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, the 'Wizard Earl'. The Earl's ‘three magi’ were Warner, Thomas Harriot and Robert Hues.〔Stephen Coote, ''A Play of Passion: The Life of Sir Walter Ralegh'' (1993), p. 325.〕 Percy paid Warner a retainer to help him with alchemical experiments (£20 per annum in 1595, rising to £40 in 1607).〔Steven Shapin, A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-century England (1994), p. 366.〕 He also belonged to the overlapping group around Sir Walter Ralegh. At this time he was mainly known for chemical and medical interests.〔Robert Lacey, ''Sir Walter Ralegh'' (1973), p. 320.〕 It has been argued by Jean Jacquot that this group of experimental researchers, sponsored by Percy and Ralegh, represents the transitional moment from the still-magical theories of Giordano Bruno to real science.〔John S. Mebane, ''Renaissance Magic and the Return of the Golden Age: The Occult Tradition and Marlowe, Jonson, and Shakespeare'' (1992), p. 78.〕 He may have been associated with Christopher Marlowe's study group on religion, branded atheists, but confusion is possible here with William Warner.〔Christopher Hill, ''Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution, Revisited (1997), p. 129, indexed under William Warner.〕 After Henry Percy's death, he was supported by Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland, and then Sir Thomas Aylesbury.〔 Warner edited Harriot's ''Artis Analyticae Praxis'' in 1631.〔http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Algebra〕 He met Thomas Hobbes through Sir Charles Cavendish, who circulated Warner's works.〔George Henry Radcliffe Parkinson, Stuart Shanker (1999), ''Routledge History of Philosophy'' (1999), p. 222.〕 Warner was a friend of Robert Payne, chaplain to Cavendish;〔Aloysius Martinich, ''Hobbes: A Biography'' (1999), p. 24.〕 and this connection is frequently used to associate Warner with the Welbeck Academy. In 1634 Warner and Hobbes discussed refraction.〔Stuart Clark, ''Vanities of the Eye: Vision in Early Modern European Culture'' (2007), p. 334.〕 This acquaintance was later brought up against Hobbes in the Hobbes-Wallis controversy.〔Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer (1985), ''Leviathan and the Air-Pump'', p. 83.〕 With John Pell he computed the first table of antilogarithms in the 1630s. John Aubrey, relying on Pell's testimony, states that Warner had claimed to have anticipated William Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood, and that Harvey must have heard of it through a Mr Prothero. Pell also mentioned that Warner had been born without a left hand.〔Richard Barber (editor), ''John Aubrey, Brief Lives'' (1975), p. 320.〕 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「Walter Warner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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