Son of Leonard Digges, and father of Dudley Digges and Leonard Digges (II)
Thomas Digges (/dɪɡz/; c. 1546 – 24 August 1595) 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.[1] He was also first to postulate the "dark night sky paradox".[2]
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^Al-Khalili, Jim, Everything and Nothing – 1. Everything, BBC Four, 9:00PM Mon, 21 March 2011
to postulate the "dark night sky paradox". ThomasDigges, born about 1546, was the son of Leonard Digges (c. 1515 – c. 1559), the mathematician and surveyor...
Dudley Digges (19 May 1583 – 18 March 1639) was an English diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1610 and 1629. Digges was also...
Universe was first proposed by ThomasDigges in 1576 in his A Perfit Description of the Caelestial Orbes, in which Digges both presents and extends the...
The Puritan ThomasDigges (1546–1595?) was the earliest Englishman to offer a defense of the Copernican theory. ... Accompanying Digges's account is a...
familiar with the work (translated into English by his ward and assistant, ThomasDigges) of Nicolaus Copernicus. Many of his astronomical calculations were...
London Robert Hooke noted ThomasDigges' 1571 Pantometria, (a book on measurement, partially based on his father Leonard Digges' notes and observations)...
Copernicus to say that the theory of heliocentrism is physically true. ThomasDigges had published a defense of Copernicus in an appendix in 1576. According...
which he did during his time in England, but an English scientist, ThomasDigges, put forth this idea in a published work in 1576, some eight years earlier...
the stars, which he held to be stationary. The English almanac maker, ThomasDigges, delineated the spheres of the new cosmological system in his Perfit...
in 1575 (p. 96); Poyntz was sidelined and the work was finished by ThomasDigges. Ash, Eric H. (2004). Power, Knowledge, and Expertise in Elizabethan...
August 13, 2015. Raine & Thomas (2001, pp. 122–123) Raine & Thomas (2001, p. 70) Raine & Thomas (2001, p. 84) Raine & Thomas (2001, pp. 88, 110–113) Munitz...
The first published proposal that the universe is infinite came from ThomasDigges in 1576. Eight years later, in 1584, the Italian philosopher and astronomer...
The Puritan ThomasDigges (1546–1595?) was the earliest Englishman to offer a defense of the Copernican theory. ... Accompanying Digges's account is a...
sight the supernova included Wolfgang Schuler, Christopher Clavius, ThomasDigges, John Dee, Francesco Maurolico, Tadeáš Hájek and Bartholomäus Reisacher [de]...
astronomer to support the concept of an infinite universe was the Englishman ThomasDigges in 1576. But the scale of the universe remained unknown until the first...
"saving the phenomena" versus offering explanations, one can understand why Thomas Aquinas, in the 13th century, wrote: Reason may be employed in two ways...
The Puritan ThomasDigges (1546–1595?) was the earliest Englishman to offer a defense of the Copernican theory. ... Accompanying Digges's account is a...
The Puritan ThomasDigges (1546–1595?) was the earliest Englishman to offer a defense of the Copernican theory. ... Accompanying Digges's account is a...
nonetheless saw significant scientific progress. The astronomers ThomasDigges and Thomas Harriot made important contributions; William Gilbert published...
invented. 1570 — The writings of ThomasDigges describes how his father, English mathematician and surveyor Leonard Digges (1520–1559), made use of a "proportional...
Metropolitan Museum of Art. pp. 201–203. Digges, Thomas (November 22, 1780). "To John Adams from ThomasDigges, 22 November 1780". Founders Online, National...
Renaissance saw significant scientific progress. The astronomers ThomasDigges and Thomas Harriot made important contributions; William Gilbert published...
around 15 astronomers espousing Copernicanism in all of Europe: "ThomasDigges and Thomas Harriot in England; Giordano Bruno and Galileo Galilei in Italy;...
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