Zachary Bogan was an English scholar with Biblical interests. He published with the antiquarian Francis Rous the younger, and the alchemist Edmund Dickinson

Edmund Dickinson

Edmund Dickinson or Dickenson was an English royal physician and alchemist, author of a syncretic philosophical system.-Life:He was son of the Rev. William Dickinson, rector of Appleton in Berkshire , by his wife Mary, daughter of Edmund Colepepper, and was born on 26 September 1624...

. He argued for parallels between Biblical and ancient Greek literature. He also wrote purely religious works, before dying young from consumption

Tuberculosis

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Life

He was born in Gatcomb, Devon

Devon

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, and was a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Corpus Christi College, Oxford

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Works

He published Treatises on the Idioms of Homer and Hesiod, as compared with the Language of Scripture, and some devotional tracts. He collaborated with Francis Rous the younger on the work Archaeologiae Atticae Libri Septem (Seven books of the Attick Antiquities) in 1649.

He also co-authored some works with Thomas Godwyn

Thomas Godwyn

Thomas Godwyn DD , headmaster and scholar, was the second son of Anthony Godwyn of Wookey, Somerset. He entered Magdalen College, Oxford at the age of fifteen and between 1604 and 1610 was a demy of the college...

and Francis Rous.