Edmund Chilmead

Template:Use dmy dates 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.

Life

He was born in 1610 at Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire. Template:Sfn 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. Template:Sfn

Works

He produced the editio princeps of the Chronographia of Malalas. He translated:

• Robert Hues's (A Learned Treatise of Globes, 1639)
• the De Monarchia Hispanica of Tommaso Campanella (Discourse Touching the Spanish Monarchy, 1654)
• Jacques Ferrand on 'erotic melancholy',
• the Riti Ebraici of Leon of Modena (, 1650)
• the Curiositez of Jacques Gaffarel, (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, 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)

References

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• 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