John Pell ( 1611 - 1685 )

Birth: Southwick, Sussex, England, Europe, (1 March 1611) Death: Dyot Street, London, England, Europe (12 December 1685) Burial: Rector's vault of St Giles-in-the-Fields, London, England, Europe Occupation: Clergyman, Church of England Research Field: Mathematics Education: Mr John Jefferies School at Steyning, Sussex; Trinity College, Cambridge (admitted 1624; BA (1628), MA (1630)); Incorporated at Oxford (1631); DD (Lambeth 1663) Career: Assistant Master at Collyer's School in Horsham and teacher at Chichester Academy in Sussex (1630-1638); Published 'An Idea of Mathematics' (1638); Professor of Mathematics at 'Gymnasium Illustre' in Amsterdam (1643); Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at Breda (1646); Published 'A Refutation of Longomontanus' Pretended Quadrature of the Circle' (1646/7); Returned to England (1652); Cromwell's Envoy and then Resident at Zurich (1654-1658); Editor on Rahn's 'Teutsche Algebra' (1659); Ordained deacon and priest (1661); Rector of Fobbing, Essex (1661-1685); Vicar of Laindon and Basildon, Essex (1663-1685); Chaplain to Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury (FRS 1665); Published 'A Table of Ten Thousand Square Numbers' (1672); Imprisoned for debt twice and given asylum at the Royal College of Physicians by Daniel Whistler (FRS 1663) Membership: Original Fellow Election Date: 20/05/1663 Council: On Council (c. 1676) Committee appointments included: Committee on mechanical and optical inventions (1664) Committee on reporting and conducting experiments on natural phenomena (1664).