Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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1893 text
Jonas Moore was born at Whitley, Lancashire, February 8th, 1617, and was appointed by Charles I. tutor to the Duke of York. Soon after the Restoration he was knighted and made Surveyor-General of the Ordnance. He was famous as a mathematician, and was one of the founders of the Royal Society. He died August 27th, 1679, and at his funeral sixty pieces of ordnance were discharged at the Tower.
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For more details see;
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Moore_Jonas.html
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More on Moore
http://www.burnley.gov.uk/towneley/tryall/jmhere.htm
He will also help to survey the city after the great fire of 1666.
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Aubrey on Jonas Moore
“Sir Jonas Moore was born at Whitelee, in Lancashire, towards the bishopric of Durham. He was inclined to mathematics when a boy, which some kind friends of his (whom he mentions in the preface of his first edition of his Arithmetic, and Edmund WyId esquire) and afterwards Mr Oughtred, more fully informed him; and then he taught gentlemen in London, which was his livelihood. …”
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Obits2/Moore_Jonas_Aubrey.html
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More on Moore
Lancashire Pioneers - Sir Jonas Moore
http://www.lancashirepioneers.com/moore/early.asp