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Isaac Milner

British mathematician

Died when: 70 years 81 days (842 months)
Star Sign: Capricorn

 

Isaac Milner

Isaac Milner FRS (11 January 1750 – 1 April 1820) was a mathematician, an inventor, the President of Queens' College, Cambridge and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics.

He was instrumental in the 1785 religious conversion of William Wilberforce and helped him through many trials and was a great supporter of the abolitionists' campaign against the slave trade, steeling Wilberforce with his assurance before the 1789 Parliamentary debate: If you carry this point in your whole life, that life will be better spent than in being prime minister of many years.

He was also a natural philosopher and the Dean of Carlisle.


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