Biography of John Chamber

This article contains a concise biographical timeline for John Chamber (1546-1604).

~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~

1546 – He is born

1568 – He graduates with a BA from Merton College, Oxford.

1569 – He is elected a probationary fellow of his college.

1573 – He obtains an MA.

1574 – He gets appointed a lecturer on grammar and speaks on Ptolemy’s Almagest.

1576 – He get appointed a lecturer on Greek and is chosen as junior Linacre lecturer in medicine.

c.1582 – He receives Barlaam of Calabria’s Logistica from Henry Savile.

1582 – He gives up his fellowship at Oxford upon being elected for a fellowship at Eton.

1584 – He applies for a license to practice medicine.

1593 – He receives preferment of prebendary of Netherbury in Terra at Salisbury Cathedral.

1600 – He publishes Barlaam monachi logistice.

1601 – He publishes Treatise Against Judiciall Astrologie. He also becomes a canon of St George’s Chapel, Windsor.

1604 – He publishes A confutation of astrological demonology, or, The divell’s schole.

1604 – He dies

~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~

References;

1 – https://www.patreon.com/join/ChronologyTruth

~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~

~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~