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Nicholas Hill (1570-1610?) was an English natural philosopher, considered a disciple of Giordano Bruno. He is known for his 1601 book ''Philosophia epicurea''. ==Life== He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St John's College, Oxford where he matriculated in 1587, graduated B.A. and became Fellow in 1590. He was removed from his fellowshop in 1591.〔Andrew Pyle (editor), ''Dictionary of Seventeenth Century British Philosophers'' (2000), article on Hill, pp. 424-6.〕 〔''Concise Dictionary of National Biography''〕 After a possible position as secretary or steward to Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford,〔http://www.spamula.net/col/archives/2005/10/secret_history_of_edward_vere.html〕 he was supported by Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland.〔Gaukroger, p. 162.〕 He was said to be a Catholic convert, by John Aubrey, but this is doubted by Christopher Hill.〔Christopher Hill, ''Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution, revisited'' (1997), p. 130.〕 Aubrey's account also has him a close friend of Robert Hues, at the centre of the Northumberland circle. He left England and resided in Rotterdam, with his son. Hugh Trevor-Roper considers that he was a Catholic, and for that reason expelled from St John's. He also associates Hill with the plot of Sir Robert Basset.〔Hugh Trevor-Roper, ''Nicholas Hill, the English Atomist'', in ''Catholics, Anglicans and Puritans: Seventeenth Century Essays'' (London, 1987), pp. 1–39.〕〔(R. W. Serjeantson, ''Nicholas Hill and Edmund Verney in 1606'', Notes & Queries 2005, vol. 52; Number 2, pp. 224-227. )〕 According to an account of Hues recorded by Obadiah Walker, Hill's son died and he then committed suicide.〔 John Donne satirized Hill in his ''Catalogus Librorum Aulicum''; and he was attacked and mocked by Ben Jonson (epigram 133/134).〔Empson, pp. 30-1, p. 202.〕〔http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/emls/04-2/mcraonth.htm〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nicholas Hill (scientist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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