Edmund Chilmead (1610 – 19 February 1654) was an English writer and translator, who produced both scholarly works and hack-writing. He is also known as a musician.[1]
Life
editHe was born in 1610 at Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire. [2] He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated M.A. in 1631. He became a chaplain (canon) of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1632, from where he was ejected in 1648.
Chilmead died on 19 February 1653-4 in London, and was buried in the churchyard of St Botolph's Aldersgate. [2]
Works
editHe produced the editio princeps of the Chronographia of Malalas.[3] He translated:
- Robert Hues's Tractatus de globis (A Learned Treatise of Globes, 1639)
- the De Monarchia Hispanica of Tommaso Campanella[4] (Discourse Touching the Spanish Monarchy, 1654)
- Jacques Ferrand on 'erotic melancholy',[5]
- the Riti Ebraici of Leon of Modena (The history of the rites, customes, and manner of life, of the present Jews, throughout the world, 1650)
- the Curiositez of Jacques Gaffarel,[6] (Unheard-of Curiosities Concerning the Talismanical Sculpture of the Persians, 1650)
and other works. He produced a catalogue of the Greek manuscripts in the Bodleian Library. He was a clerical defender of astrology,[7] in his translation of Gaffarel.
Anthony Wood described him as "a choice mathematician, a noted critic, and one that understood several tongues, especially the Greek, very well" (Wood, Ath. Oxon., 3.350–51)
Notes
edit- ^ HOASM: Edmund Chilmead
- ^ a b Gibson 1887.
- ^ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- ^ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- ^ PDF Archived 2007-06-11 at the Wayback Machine, in French, p. 1; published in 1640 as Erotomania or a Treatise Discoursing of the Essence, Causes, Symptomes, Prognosticks, and Cure of Love, or Erotique Melancholy.
- ^ Bibliographie Astrologique : Catalogue Alphabétique des Textes Astrologiques Français (C.A.T.A.F.) - par Jacques Halbronn
- ^ Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic (1971), p. 451 of Penguin edition.
References
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gibson, John Westby (1887). "Chilmead, Edmund". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 10. London: Smith, Elder & Co.- Concise Dictionary of National Biography
- Mordechai Feingold, Penelope M. Gouk, An early critique of Bacon's Sylva Sylvarum: Edmund Chilmead's treatise on sound, Annals of Science, Volume 40, Issue 2 March 1983, pp. 139–157