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įrom 1991 to 1993, Keil was a representative at the German consulate in Karachi. Simultaneously, he prepared for higher foreign service from 1989 to 1990, and then worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin. He was promoted to the doctorate in 1993. After positions in Moscow, Prague, Yekaterinburg and Donetsk, he served last as ambassador of Germany to Jamaica.īorn in Regensburg, he studied law from 1980, completing his first state exam in 1985, and his second in 1988. Stefan Friedrich Keil (20 March 1958 – 16 December 2021) was a German diplomat. Embassy of Germany to the Czech Republic.Embassy of Germany to the Russian Federation.Paris: Hippolyte-Louis Guérin & Jacques Guérin. Introduction to the true astronomy, or, astronomical lectures, read in the astronomical school of the University of Oxford (in French).Leiden: Johannes Verbeek & Hermanus Verbeek. Introductiones ad veram physicam et veram astronomiam (in Latin).This book also contained Keill's long papers De Legibus Virium Centripetarum and De Legibus Attractionis, aliisque Physices Principiis.Īll of these works were very popular they appeared in England and the Continent in many editions from many publishers, in Latin, English, and Dutch. This volume appeared as: Introductiones ad veram Physicam et veram Astronomiam. Oxford: Henry Clements, 1715.Īfter Keill's death, the Verbeek brothers collected Keill's work into a single volume. This volume appeared as: Euclidis Elementorum Libri Priores Sex. Keill's publisher at Oxford, Henry Clements, sometimes bound Keill's Trigonometriae and Logarithmorum with Federico Commandino's translation of Euclid's Elements. Introductio ad Veram Astronomiam seu Lectiones Astronomicae.Item de Natura et Arithmetica Logarithmorum tractatus brevis.Trigonometriae Planae & Sphaericae Elementa.Introductio ad Veram Physicam seu Lectiones Physicae.He spent £500 to his household furniture and plate to his wife and his books, instruments and other money in trust for his son. It was executed on 12 January 1720 and was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury in October 1721. His will is referenced in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and is held by The National Archives. It was stated in the old Dictionary of National Biography that Keill left no will. On 31 August 1721, Keill died in London from a sudden illness, possibly food poisoning. The marriage created great scandal at the time as Clements was from a lower class. In 1717, Keill married Mary Clements, a woman 25 years his junior and the daughter of an Oxford bookbinder. However, Newton himself eventually grew tired of Keill as he stirred up too much trouble. In his later years, Keill became involved in the controversy regarding Gottfried Leibniz's alleged plagiarisation of Newton's invention of calculus, serving as Newton's chief defender. On 9 July 1713, he was awarded the DM degree. In 1712, Keill returned to Oxford as Savilian Professor of Astronomy. His responsibilities included explaining old manuscripts to the sovereign. In 1711, Keill accepted the position of decypherer to Anne, Queen of Great Britain. He accompanied at least one group of German refugees to the British Province of New York. In 1709, Keill was appointed treasurer of a charitable fund to resettle war refugees from the German states. However, after failing to get an academic appointment at Oxford in 1709, Keill left the university to seek a government position. In 1700, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. This publication, along with his teaching, gained Keill notice in the English academic community. His volume contained scientific attacks on Burnet, René Descartes, Baruch Spinoza, Thomas Hobbes and Nicolas Malebranche. He instructed his students on the laws of motion, the principles of hydrostatics and optics, and Newtonian propositions on light and colours. After being appointed a lecturer in experimental philosophy at Hart Hall, Keill started giving lectures and performing experiments based on Newton's findings. Keill then attended Balliol College, Oxford, obtaining an MA on 2 February 1694. In 1692, he obtained his bachelor's degree with a distinction in physics and mathematics. Keill studied at Edinburgh University under David Gregory. His brother, James Keill, became a noted physician. His father was Robert Keill, an Edinburgh lawyer. Keill was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 1 December 1671.