From 1660 onwards Collins worked at a number of jobs but most often as an accountant for various different organisations. In 1649 he became a mathematics teacher in London, a post he held until 1660. the wars here breaking out, I went seven years to sea, most of it in the Venetian service against the Turk, wherein my hazard was almost as various as those of Dr Johnson set out in his sermon in print and enjoying some leisure I recovered so much Latin that in 1646 I translated some books into English. For seven years he served, and during this time he continued to study mathematics while at sea. Collins seems to have decided to leave England because of the Civil War and he became a seaman. It was the King's gardens in Oxford that are referred to above. In 1642 the Civil War had broken out and the King, together with the Court, had moved to Christ's College Oxford. for the study of the mechanical and mathematical sciences that he was taken under the tuition of Mr Marr, who drew several dials which were placed in different positions in the King's garden, under whom Collins made no small progress in the mathematics. Hutton tells us in that because of Collins brilliance:. He recounted his early life to a friend with whom he corresponded on mathematical topics (see ):-īeing a poor minister's son born within three miles of Oxford, and a while instructed in the Grammar school I went out betimes, my parents being dead, apprentice to a bookseller in Oxford, who failing I lived three years at Court and in that space forgot the Latin I had. In 1641 he became a clerk at Court and in this position began to learn mathematics. His first job was as an apprentice bookseller in Oxford, a job which he did for around three years. Biography John Collins's father was a minister who died when John was 13 years of age and he had to earn a living from that time.
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