Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Savilian Professor of Astronomy/archive1


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was promoted by SchroCat 13:14, 23 February 2015.

Savilian Professor of Astronomy

 * Nominator(s): BencherliteTalk 17:40, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

A companion piece to Savilian Professor of Geometry, another list of Oxford University academics, which I took through FLC in 2010. I rewrote this in 2012, but never got round to nominating it - I think I just forgot. Anyway, I've rediscovered it, repaired a couple of deadlinks and I think it's good to go. No doubt you will tell me what I've missed, but I hope you enjoy reading about what Christopher Wren did when he wasn't rebuilding St Paul's Cathedral! BencherliteTalk 17:40, 11 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Support The Rambling Man (talk) 10:53, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks, sir. BencherliteTalk 13:03, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Support Just one comment from me: in Bradley there is a "discoveration of nutation". Would discovery be better? Superb otherwise! – SchroCat (talk) 12:38, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Good spot! Non-word changed to something in the English dictionary... Thanks, BencherliteTalk 13:34, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Support Excellent list, informative and interesting. No comments from me, although one thing I was wondering - was the stipulation that the professor stargaze every night repealed in the 19th century reforms? I imagine the records up to that point probably include a lot of clouds. --Jackyd101 (talk) 10:35, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Answering your question caused me to hunt down the original statutes (fortunately I found a 19th-century translation of the Latin!) and add some more detail. The short answer is that, yes, the 19th-century reforms removed the original specifications, which were very detailed and prescriptive, although the requirement to stargaze was in fact at "fitting times and seasons" rather than every night as my original source said, so the professors had a complete excuse for going to bed whenever they wanted! BencherliteTalk 13:03, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
 * If they were anything like the lecturers I knew at university, quite a few of those observations would have been somewhat bleary-eyed. Glad I could help. Really is a nice article - I always enjoy your professor lists. --Jackyd101 (talk) 23:03, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
 * That's very kind of you. By the way, Laudian Professor of Arabic is going to be "Today's Featured List" on 9th March, so anything you can spot to improve it before then would be welcome. BencherliteTalk 08:34, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Another fine article - I left a couple of minor comments on the talk page, although its entirely up to you whether you want to action them.--Jackyd101 (talk) 11:01, 20 February 2015 (UTC)


 * – SchroCat (talk) 13:03, 23 February 2015 (UTC)


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