John Beale (c.1608 – 1683) was an English clergyman, scientific writer, and early Fellow of the Royal Society.
He contributed to John Evelyn's Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber,[1] and was an influential author on orchards and cider.
Thomas Birch identifies this period as the time when Ramism and Calvinism fell out of fashion there.
He travelled on the continent in the late 1630s, and was rector of Sock Dennis, Somerset from 1638.
[5] Hartlib, writing to Robert Boyle in 1658, said of Beale: "There is not the like man in the whole island".