Leonard Digges (scientist)
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Leonard Digges was a well-known English mathematician and surveyor, credited with the invention of the theodolite, and a great populariser of science through his writings in English on surveying, cart
Title page of Leonard Digges's Pantometria (1591)
Thomas Digges
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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 infin
Leonard Digges (scientist)
…birth date is variously suggested as c.1515 or c.1520 (but certainly by 1530). Much of his work was expanded on, annotated, and published by his son, Thomas Digges. His son followed in his footsteps and was a pivotal player in the popularisation of Copernicus's book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. Notes written…
An illustration of the Copernican universe from Thomas Digges's book