William Whiston
type: Q215627
type: Q729
type: Q5
type: Eukaryote
type: Person
type: NaturalPerson
type: Thing
type: Q901
type: Species
type: Scientist
type: Animal
type: Q19088
label: ウィリアム・ホイストン @ja
label: Уистон, Уильям @ru
label: 윌리엄 휘스턴 @ko
death place: Lyndon, Rutland
death place: Lyndon, Rutland, England
death date: 1752-08-22
birth place: Leicestershire
birth place: Twycross
birth place: Norton-juxta-Twycross, Leicestershire, England
birth date: 1667-12-09
subject: Category:18th-century English mathematicians
subject: Category:Post-Reformation Arian Christians
subject: Category:18th-century apocalypticists
subject: Category:18th-century English philosophers
subject: Category:Lucasian Professors of Mathematics
subject: Category:18th-century English historians
subject: Category:Catastrophism
subject: Category:Natural philosophers
subject: Category:English Baptists
subject: Category:18th-century English memoirists
subject: Category:Translators of Ancient Greek texts
subject: Category:1752 deaths
subject: Category:1667 births
subject: Category:Chronologists
subject: Category:People from Hinckley and Bosworth (district)
subject: Category:18th-century English Christian theologians
subject: Category:Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge
subject: Category:17th-century English mathematicians
subject: Category:17th-century apocalypticists
description: angielski teolog, matematyk i historyk @pl
description: brittisk matematiker @sv
description: théologien anglais @fr
description: ಗಣಿತಜ್ಞ @kn
description: britisk matematiker @da
description: englischer Theologe und Physiker @de
description: filosofo, teologo e matematico inglese @it
description: theologian, historian, mathematician (1667-1752)
description: תאולוג והיסטוריון אנגלי @iw
description: Brits wiskundige (1667-1752) @nl
description: britisk matematikar @nn
description: teòleg, historiador i matemàtic anglès @ca
description: ریاضی‌دان بریتانیایی @fa
alma mater: Clare College, Cambridge
fields: Mathematics, theology
known for: Translating the works of Josephus, catastrophism, isoclinic maps, work on longitude
workplaces: Clare College, Cambridge
academic advisor: Isaac Newton
academic advisor: Robert Herne
academic discipline: Mathematics
institution: Clare College, Cambridge
known for: Longitude
known for: Josephus
known for: Contour line
known for: Catastrophism
notable student: James Jurin
academic advisors: Robert Herne
academic advisors: Isaac Newton
notable students: James Jurin
signature: WilliamWhiston_sig.jpg
nationality: English
caption: Portrait by Sarah Hoadly, 1720
date: 2013-04-25
date: 2006-10-04
date: 2012-05-10
date: 2007-09-29
url: https://web.archive.org/web/20061004114905/http:/www.newtonproject.ic.ac.uk/texts/viewtext.php%3Fid=OTHE00037&mode=normalized
url: https://web.archive.org/web/20070929171658/http:/www.lyndon-estate.co.uk/04%20History/Historical%20Figures/WilliamWhiston/William%20Whiston%20Abstract.htm