References for John Wilkins

Books:

1. J G Crowther, Founders of British science : John Wilkins, Robert Boyle, John Ray, Christopher Wren, Robert Hooke, Isaac Newton (London, 1960).
2. P A W Henderson, The Life and Times of John Wilkins (London, 1910).
3. H R McAdoo, The Spirit of Anglicanism : A survey od Anglican Theological Method in the Seventeenth Century (London, 1965).
4. B J Shapiro, John Wilkins, 1614-1672 : an intellectual biography (Berkeley, 1969).
5. J Wilkins, The mathematical and philosophical works of the Right Reverend John Wilkins (London, 1708).

Articles:

6. J Aubrey, John Wilkins, in Aubrey's Brief Lives (Ann Arbor, 1957), 319-320.
7. J A Bennett, Magnetical philosophy and astronomy from Wilkins to Hooke, in Planetary astronomy from the Renaissance to the rise of astrophysics Part A (Cambridge, 1989), 222-230.
8. E J Bowen and H Hartley, The Right Reverend John Wilkins FRS (1614-1672), in The Royal Society: its origins and founders (London, 1960), 47-54.
9. D Stimson, Dr Wilkins and the Royal Society, J. Modern History 3 (1931), 539-563.
10. John Wilkins, Biographia Britannica VI (1756), 4266-4275.

February 2002