Thomas Digges
English mathematician and astronomer
Thomas Digges was an English mathematician and astronomer. He was the first to expound the Copernican system in English but discarded the notion of a fixed shell of immoveable stars to postulate infinitely many stars at varying distances. He was... Wikipedia
Born: 1546, Wootton, United Kingdom
Died: August 24, 1595 (age 49 years), London, United Kingdom
Education: University of Cambridge and Queens' College
Books: An Arithmeticall Militarie Treatise, Named Stratioticos, The Theodelitus and Topographical Instrument of Leonard Digges of University College, Oxford: Described by His Son Thomas Digges in 1571. Reprinted from Longimetra, the Fyrst Booke of Pantometria, A Perfite Description of the Coelestiall Orbes: According to the Most Auncient Doctrine of the Pythagorians ; Lately Reneiued by Copernicus, and by Geometricall Demonstrations Approved ; [based on Book I of Copernicus De Revolutionibus Robium Coelestium], and more
Grandchildren: Edward Digges, Dudley Digges, and Anne Digges
Children: Leonard Digges, Dudley Digges, Ursula Digges, and more
Parents: Leonard Digges and Bridget Digges