1595
Thomas Digges, English mathematician and astronomer (born 1546)
Thomas Digges, English mathematician and astronomer (born 1546)
Thomas Digges, English mathematician and astronomer (born 1546)
Thomas Digges
English mathematician and astronomer (died 1595)
- Died
- 1595
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".