Hippodamus biography of william butler

He graduated M. In October the university of Cambridge granted him a license to practise physic, he having then been a regent in arts for six years. He was usually styled Doctor, though he never took the degree of M. Although Sir Edward Peyton has not scrupled to cite Butler's opinion that the prince was poisoned, it appears that, in common with the other physicians, he entertained no such suspicion Secret Hist.

In November Butler attended the king at Newmarket for an injury received in hunting; and when the king was at Cambridge in May he visited Butler and stayed with him nearly an hour. Butler lived in the house of John Crane, a celebrated apothecary of Cambridge, and many anecdotes are recorded of his eccentricities and empirical mode of practice.

Hippodamus is an enigmatic figure whose life has been documented by only a few sources, but his reputation as the 'father of urban planning' has awarded him a.

The Dr. This surprize absolutely cured him. Butler died at Cambridge on 29 Jan. Butler left his estate to his friend John Crane, and he was a benefactor to Clare Hall, to which he bequeathed many of his books and l. Butler's ale. Page Source Discussion. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools.

He was a member of Pericles' colony sent in to Thurii, in S. Italy, along with Lampon the expert in religious law, Protagoras and Euthydemus the sophists.

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