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Lucasian Professor

England · Science / Mathematics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Isaac Barrow18 January 1664

Cambridge · Science / Mathematics

Becomes the first Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge.

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Isaac Barrow

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