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About 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".
Everything about Thomas Digges →- Occupation
- astronomer, mathematician, politician, military officer
- Position held
- Member of the 1572-83 Parliament, Member of the 1584-85 Parliament
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of England
- Born
- 1546
- Died
- August 24, 1595