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What does Lucasian mean?

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  1. Of or pertaining to Henry Lucas (c.1610-1663), Member of Parliament for Cambridge University and founder of the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics.
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From 1828 to 1839 Babbage was Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge.
Newton was a fellow of Trinity College and the second Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
In the late 1970s, Hawking was elected Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
He was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in 1669 on Barrow's recommendation.
At the end of the same year he sent in his resignation as Lucasian professor, walking away also from the Cambridge struggle with Whewell.
At Cambridge University the ancient professorship of pure mathematics is denominated by the Lucasian, and is the chair that had been occupied by Isaac Newton.

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