John Aubrey

English writer and antiquarian (1626-1697)

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Born: 1626
Died: 1697
Works: 63

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Antología de la literatura fantástica
Εφημερις, or, A diary astronomical, astrological, meteorological, for the year of our Lord, 1696
Lives of eminent men
Aubrey's collections for Wilts ...
The natural history and antiquities of the county of Surrey

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Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
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Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
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Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
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Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
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The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
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Quotes

“Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said, it was revealed to him, that the King's hand would cure him, and at the first coming of King Charles II into St. James's Park, he kissed the King's hand, and rubbed his nose with it; which disturbed the King, but cured him.”
“There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.”
“He left an estate of eleaven thousand pounds per annum. Sir John Danvers, who knew him, told me that he had heard one say to him, reflecting on his great scraping of wealth, that his sonnes would spend his Estate faster than he gott it; he replyed, They cannot take more delight in the spending of it than I did in the getting of it.”
“How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe.”
“He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more then his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men, he should have knowne no more than other men.”
“The parliament intended to have hanged him, and he expected no less, but resolved to be hanged with the Bible under one arm and Magna Carta under the other.”

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Key facts

Born: 12 March 1626, Kington St Michael , Wiltshire , England
Died: 7 June 1697 (aged 71)
Resting place: St Mary Magdalen, Oxford , 51°45′17″N 1°15′32″W / 51.754620°N 1.258826°W / 51.754620; -1.258826
Alma mater: Trinity College, Oxford
Occupations: Author antiquarian biographer

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date of birth: 1626-03-12
date of death: 1697-06-07
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name in native language: John Aubrey

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John Aubrey FRS (12 March 1626 – 7 June 1697) was an English antiquary, natural philosopher and writer. He was a pioneer archaeologist, who recorded (often for the first time) numerous megalithic and other field monuments in southern England, and who is particularly noted for his systematic examination of the Avebury henge monument. The Aubrey holes at Stonehenge are named after him, although there is considerable doubt as to whether the holes that he observed are those that currently bear the name. He was also a pioneer folklorist, collecting together a miscellany of material on customs, traditions and beliefs under the title "Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme". He set out to compile county histories of both Wiltshire and Surrey, although both projects remained unfinished. His "Interpretation of Villare Anglicanum" (also unfinished) was the first attempt to compile a full-length study of English place-names. He had wider interests in applied mathematics and astronomy, and was friendly with many of the greatest scientists of the day.

Aubrey was the author of Brief Lives, a collection of short biographical pieces. For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, thanks largely to the popularity of Brief Lives, Aubrey was regarded as little more than an entertaining but quirky, eccentric and credulous gossip. Only in the 1970s did the full breadth and innovation of his scholarship begin to be more widely appreciated. He published little in his lifetime, and many of his most important manuscripts (for the most part preserved in the Bodleian Library) remain unpublished, or published only in partial form.