From: http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Societies/Savilian.html
"The Savilian Chair of Geometry was founded in 1619 at the University of Oxford by Henry Savile."
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"The professor of geometry was required to teach the whole of Euclid's Elements, Apollonius's Conics and the complete works of Archimedes having first provided all the necessary mathematical background for an understanding of the texts. His course notes had to be deposited in the University Library. He was also required to show the practical applications of mathematics, teach arithmetic, mechanics and the theory of music. Perhaps more unusual, especially to those thinking in terms of mathematics taught in universities today, was the requirement that field work was to be undertaken in the country when the weather allowed such activities, and the students would there study practical geometry."
