Talk:John Wilkins

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Wasn't he eduacated in Magdalen Hall, Cambridge? He was brought up in Oxford. And Magdalen College, Oxford has always been Magdalen College. Magdalen Hall, which is now Hertford, is unrelated to Magdalen College. JH

No, he was educated at Magdalen Hall Oxford -- which as you say is now Hertford College. It was related to Magdalen College in that it was sited in premises adjacent to Magdalen College and that college appointed, I think, the head of the Hall. Simon Kershaw 14:16, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bladder stones?

According to:

• Chapman, Allan (2005). England's Leonardo: Robert Hooke and the Seventeenth-Century Scientific Revolution. CRC Press. ISBN 0750309873. 

he died from a six-day stoppage of the urine, which was initially blamed on bladder stones. However, no stones were found during his autopsy. Instead, he may have died from the peculiar mixture of medicines provided by his doctors.—RJH (talk) 20:45, 30 May 2008 (UTC)