Born at Alresford, Hampshire

Entered Balliol College, Oxford

Elected Fellow at Merton College, Oxford

Professor of geometry at Gresham College, London

Visits to Paris, Venice, Padua, and Leiden

Set off to the Levant with Edward Pococke, based in Constantinople

Travelled to Alexandria via Rhodes and, twice, to Cairo

From Alexandria, he went to Naples, Rome and Florence; met Sir Robert Dudley, the naval commander and designer of astronomical instruments in Florence

Returned to England 

Professor of Astronomy at Oxford

Banished from Oxford by Parliamentarians; moved to London, lived with John Marsham, Egyptologist, in Kent

Married

8 October died , buried in St Benet Sherehog, London