Greek and Natural philosophy, 1663

Ancients, Moderns, and again new cycles of it. Isaac Barrow, Prof of Greek at Cambridge, before 1663 :

I sit alone as an Attic owl, who has been thrust out of the companionship of all other birds; while other classes in Natural Philosophy are full. (Merton Science in 17th Century England, 95.) …

for, as is well known, in 1663, he left this chair to accept the newly-established Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics, in which he was Newton’s predecessor. (96)