About Lancelot Coelson
Lived 1627 – 1687 (aged 59–60). Lancelot Coelson was an English astrologer, medic, physicist, writer and physician.
Lancelot Colson (1627 – circa 1687), also called Lancelot Coelson or Lancelot Coulson, was an English astrologer and medical practitioner.
Biography Colson was an astrologer who practised at the sign of the Royal Oak on Great Tower Hill. His almanack or ephemeris was published there from 1660 to 1676, together with his "Philosophia Maturata, an Exact Piece of Philosophy, containing the practick and operative part thereof in gaining the philosopher's stone," &c. (London, 1668, 12mo). This volume was one of the leading works on the philosopher's stone.
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Who was Lancelot Coelson?
English astrologer and medical practitioner
When was Lancelot Coelson born?
Lancelot Coelson was born in 1627.
When did Lancelot Coelson die?
Lancelot Coelson died in 1687.
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Lancelot Coelson was an astrologer, medic, physicist, writer and physician.
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Lancelot Coelson was English.
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