Thomas Digges Scientist
Thomas Digges (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; he was also first to postulate the "dark night sky paradox".
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- http://books.google.ca/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&pg=RA1-PA81&lpg=RA1-PA81&dq=%22dygges%22+%22barham%22&source=bl&ots=kunDP_MWb9&sig=7KL31r29HwXK3utrmTqJK18qxbI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sWwuUa_9B-aniAKZhoDIAw&ved=0CEAQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%22dygges%22%20%22barham%22&f=false
- http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Digges.html
- http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/digges-thomas-1546-95
- http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~matc/Readers/renaissance.astro/5.1.Orbs.html
- http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/staff/saj/texts/dee-digges.htm
- http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/staff/saj/thesis/digges.htm