EDMUND CHILMEAD

'Edmund Chilmead' (1610-1654) was an English writer and translator, who produced both scholarly works and hack writing. He is also known as a musician^[1].
He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated M.A. in 1631. He became a chaplain (canon) of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1632, from where he was ejected in 1648.
He produced the editio princeps of the ''Chronographia'' of Malalas^[2]. He translated

★ the ''De Monarchia Hispanica'' of Tommaso Campanella^[3]

★ Jacques Ferrand on 'erotic melancholy'^[4],

★ the ''Riti Ebraici'' of Leon of Modena,

★ the ''Curiositez'' of Jacques Gaffarel^[5],
and other works. He produced a catalogue of the Greek manuscripts in the Bodleian Library. He was a clerical defender of astrology^[6], in his translation of Gaffarel.

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★ ''Concise Dictionary of National Biography''

★ Mordechai Feingold, Penelope M. Gouk, ''An early critique of Bacon's Sylva Sylvarum: Edmund Chilmead's treatise on sound'', Annals of Science, Volume 40, Issue 2 March 1983 , pp. 139-157

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4. PDF, in French, p. 1; published in 1640 as ''Erotomania or a Treatise Discoursing of the Essence, Causes, Symptomes, Prognosticks, and Cure of Love, or Erotique Melancholy.''
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6. Keith Thomas, ''Religion and the Decline of Magic'' (1971), p. 451 of Penguin edition.