Thomas Digges
Mathematician, Astronomer
1546 – 1595
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Who was Thomas Digges?
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 also first to postulate the "dark night sky paradox".
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- Born
- 1546
Wootton, Kent - Also known as
- Sir Thomas Digges
- Parents
- Children
- Nationality
- Kingdom of England
- Profession
- Education
- Queens' College, Cambridge
- University of Cambridge
- Died
- Aug 24, 1595
London
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on July 23, 2013
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