Richard White

Richard White, in Latin Ricardus Albius, who lived from 1590 to 1682, was an English mathematician and physicist, a Catholic from Essex who studied under Benedetto Castelli in Pisa and lived mostly in Italy. His brother Thomas White was a Roman Catholic theologian and scholar, and he married Catherine Weston, daughter of the Earl of Portland. In the preface of his book Hemisphaerium Dissectum, Opus Geometricum, printed in Rome in 1648 with the permission of the Inquisition, he wrote with great admiration of Galileo, with whom he also corresponded in friendly terms. He was proposed for election to the Philosophical Society in June 1661 and elected on 26 June 1661, but was not re-elected after the second charter in 1663 and is not listed as an original fellow of the Royal Society.