Draper

(John William ), scientist and historian, b. St. Helens, near Liverpool, 5 May 1811. The son of a Wesley an minister, he was educated at London University. In ’32 he emigrated to America, where he was Profe or of Chemistry and Natural History in New York University. He was one of the inventors of photography and the first who applied it to astronomy. He wrote many scientific works, notably on Human Physiology . His history of the American Civil War is an important work, but he is chiefly known by his History of the Intellectual Development of Europe and History of the Conflict of Religion and Science , which last has gone through many editions and been translated into all the principal languages. Died 4 Jan. 1882.