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*Feingold, M., ''The mathematician's apprenticeship'', Cambridge, 1984, 67.
 
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*Roberts, R. Julian. [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/19152 "Moore, William (bap. 1590, d. 1659), librarian and collector of manuscripts."] ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''.   
 
*Roberts, R. Julian. [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/19152 "Moore, William (bap. 1590, d. 1659), librarian and collector of manuscripts."] ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''.   

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William MOORE 1590-1659

Biographical Note

Born at Gissing, Norfolk, son of William Moore. BA Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 1610, MA 1613, fellow 1615, lecturer in rhetoric 1614; Librarian of Cambridge University 1653.

Books

Moore assembled a significant collection of ca. 150 ex-monastic manuscripts, which he bequeathed to Gonville and Caius where they remain today. He was remembered for his learning, and as a diligent custodian of the University Library.

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