John Aubrey
John Aubrey
John Aubrey FRS, was an English antiquary, natural philosopher and writer. He is perhaps best known as the author of the Brief Lives, his collection of short biographical pieces. He was a pioneer archaeologist, who recordednumerous megalithic and other field monuments in southern England, and who is particularly noted as the discoverer of the Avebury henge monument. The Aubrey holes at Stonehenge are named after him, although there is considerable doubt as to whether the holes that he observed are...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth12 March 1626
How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellows as I am put them down.
How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.
He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said, "Box about: twill come to my father anon."
How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe!
He [William Harvey] bid me to goe to the Fountain-head, and read Aristotle, Cicero, Avicenna, and did call the Neoteriques shitt-breeches.
When he killed a calf he would do it in a high style, and make a speech. (About Shakespeare)
Upon the sixth of April, Alexander the Great was born. Upon the same day he conquered Darius, won a great victory at sea, and died the same day.