WILKINS, John

WILKINS, John
(1614-1672)
   UK philosopher who served as the Bishop of Chester. He wrote no fiction, but was one of the first popularizers of science and a propagandist for scientific progress whose speculative nonfiction is remarkable. The 3rd edn of The Discovery of a New World (1638; 3rd rev ed 1640) includes a brief discourse on the possibility of travel to the MOON.Mathematicall Magick (1648) is a treatise on TECHNOLOGY, including essays on submarines, flying machines and perpetual-motion MACHINES (of whose feasibility he was sceptical). While he was Master of Wadham College, Oxford, he founded the Philosophical Society, which in 1662 became theRoyal Society. BS

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