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{{Infobox scientist
| name = John Keill FRS
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| caption = John Keill
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1671|12|1}}
| birth_place = [[Edinburgh]], Scotland
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1721|8|31|1671|12|1}}
| death_place = [[Oxford]], England
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| work_institutions = [[University of Oxford]]
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| academic_advisors = [[David Gregory (mathematician)|David Gregory]]▼
| notable_students = [[Brook Taylor]]<br>[[John Theophilus Desaguliers]]<ref>[http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/380653 Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth, "Competing to Popularize Newtonian Philosophy: John Theophilus Desaguliers and the Preservation of Reputation", ''Isis'', 2003, '''94''': 435–455].</ref>▼
▲|academic_advisors = [[David Gregory (mathematician)|David Gregory]]
| known_for = Defending [[Isaac Newton]]▼
▲|notable_students = [[Brook Taylor]]<br>[[John Theophilus Desaguliers]]<ref>[http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/380653 Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth, "Competing to Popularize Newtonian Philosophy: John Theophilus Desaguliers and the Preservation of Reputation", ''Isis'', 2003, '''94''': 435–455].</ref>
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| footnotes = He is the brother of physician [[James Keill]].▼
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▲|footnotes = He is the brother of physician [[James Keill]].
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Keill studied at [[Edinburgh University]] under [[David Gregory (mathematician)|David Gregory]]. In 1692, he obtained his bachelor's degree with a distinction in [[physics]] and [[mathematics]]. Keill then attended [[Balliol College, Oxford]], obtaining an MA on 2 February 1694. After being appointed a lecturer in experimental philosophy at [[Hart Hall]], Keill started giving lectures and performing experiments based on Newton's findings. He instructed his students on the [[laws of motion]], the principles of [[hydrostatics]] and [[optics]], and Newtonian propositions on light and colours.
In 1698
In 1709, Keill was appointed treasurer of a charitable fund to resettle [[German Palatines|war refugees]] from the German states. He accompanied at least one group of German refugees to the British [[Province of New York]].
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[[Category:Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford]]
[[Category:18th-century Scottish mathematicians]]
[[Category:18th-century Scottish people]]
[[Category:Scottish astronomers]]
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