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Samuel Gellibrand

English bookseller

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 19, 2024
Entity authorityQ105062882 ↗
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Samuel Gellibrand (1614–1675) was a London bookseller and son of physician Henry Gellibrand (1568–1615) and Mary Faversham, along with brothers John, Edward, Thomas and Henry, a mathematician appointed Gresham Professor of Astronomy. Samuel apprenticed under Henry Featherstone from 1630 to 1637, set up shop at the sign of the Brazen Serpent in St. Paul's Churchyard and published Mathematical Magick in 1648.

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This entry incorporates text from “Samuel Gellibrand” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.