John Westwyk
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14th-century English astronomer-monk
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Westwyk was an English astronomer, adventurer, Benedictine monk, and author of the Equatorie of the Planetis. Biography Little is known of John Westwyk's early life. The name Westwyk is almost certainly a toponym; he presumably came from the hamlet of Gorham-Westwick, two miles west of St Albans. He was a monk of St Albans Abbey by 1380, and was most likely ordained between 1368 and 1379. Like many monks, he was probably the son of a mid-ranking peasant or yeoman.
