Charles Scarborough

Mathematician, Deceased Person

1615 – 1694

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Who was Charles Scarborough?

Sir Charles Scarborough MP FRS FRCP was an English physician and mathematician.

Scarborough was born in St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, London in 1615, the son of Edmund Scarburgh, and was sent to St. Paul's School, whence he proceeded to Caius College, Cambridge, and educated at St Paul's School, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and Merton College, Oxford. While at Oxford he was a student of William Harvey, and the two would become close friends. Scarborough was also tutor to Christopher Wren, who was for a time his assistant.

Following the Restoration in 1660, Scarborough was appointed physician to Charles II, who knighted him in 1669; Scarborough attended the king on his deathbed, and was later physician to James II and William and Mary. During the reign of James II, Scarborough served as Member of Parliament for Camelford in Cornwall.

Scarborough was an original fellow of the Royal Society and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, author of a treatise on anatomy, Syllabus Musculorum, which was used for many years as a textbook, and a translator and commentator of the first six books of Euclid's Elements. He also was the subject of a poem by Abraham Cowley, An Ode to Dr Scarborough.

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Born
Dec 19, 1615
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Education
  • Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Died
1694

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on July 23, 2013

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