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	Leonard Digges Summary
		Leonard Digges (1520 - 1559), father of Thomas Digges, was a well-known mathematician and surveyor, credited with the inventions of the theodolite and telescope, and a great populariser of science through his publications in English.
		Leonard Digges is also credited with independently inventing the reflecting, and probably the refracting telescope as part of his need to see accurately over long distances during his surveying works.
		In 1554, Leonard Digges took part in an unsuccessful rebellion led by the Protestant Sir Thomas Wyatt against England's new Catholic Queen Mary who took over the throne in 1553 from her father Henry VIII.
	www.bookrags.com /Leonard_Digges (333 words)

	Thomas Digges \| Gentleman and Mathematician
		Digges is an ideal figure for a study of changing mathematical identity, for he displayed a rare degree of self-consciousness when presenting himself and his works in the public medium of print.
		Digges promised that if these first mathematical fruits of his studies were liked and accepted, he would produce a sequel to contain not only the demonstrations of his theorems but also a further extension to introduce results based on conic sections, and on solids generated by their revolution (1571: A4r-v, S4v-T1r).
		Digges explained that the bullet’s trajectory is compounded of two motions, the first a violent one directed in a straight line out of the piece and the other a natural one striving downwards perpendicular to the horizon.
	www.mhs.ox.ac.uk /staff/saj/thesis/digges.htm (14961 words)

	Digges biography
		Although Digges and Dee were working together at this time making accurate astronomical observations there is no evidence that they actually constructed a telescope with which to observe celestial objects.
		Digges was quick to point out that this new star, which slowly began to fade from view in 1573, provided the ideal observational evidence to allow alternative theories of the universe to be considered.
		Digges became the leader of the English Copernicans and used his observations of the supernova to justify the heliocentric system.
	www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/Biographies/Digges.html (897 words)

	John Dee and Thomas Digges: like father, like son?
		Digges differed from Dee in both birth and upbringing: he appears not to have attended university and, rather than a scholar, was a gentleman who inherited substantial holdings of land and property.
		Digges rounded on potential critics as ‘two-footed moles and toads whom destiny and nature hath ordained to crawl within the earth, and suck upon the muck’; such men ‘may not possibly by any vehement exhortation be reduced or moved to taste or savour any whit of virtue, science, or any such celestial influence’.
		Both Dee and Digges were fulsome in their praise for his work, but Dee lauded Copernicus as a restorer of mathematical astronomy without discussing the physical reality of the heliocentric hypothesis, whereas Digges adopted the Copernican theory of the planetary order on mathematical grounds.
	www.mhs.ox.ac.uk /staff/saj/texts/dee-digges.htm (10147 words)

	The Digges Telescope
		Leonard Digges, who had taken part in the insurrection, was also condemned to death and his property confiscated.
		Thomas Digges was bout thirteen when his father died, and with this 'second parent' in astronomy and mathematics as his new mentor, it is not surprising that Digges was to become famous in his own right.
		Leonard by his invention of an actual reflecting telescope, and probably the refractor also, Thomas not only by promoting it but also by his own use of it on the heavens and his linking of the Copernican system with an infinite Universe.
	www.chocky.demon.co.uk /oas/diggeshistory.html (3814 words)

	the Calestiall Orbs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He was the son of the mathematician and scientist Leonard Digges, and a protege of John Dee, the preeminent scientist in England during the latter part of the sixteenth century.
		By 1573, when he was only twenty seven, Thomas Digges' reputation as an astronomer was firmly established in England and on the continent with the publication of his work related to the super-nova that had appeared the previous year.
		Digges added A Perfit Description to this edition, which was reprinted at least six times, making Thomas' humble addendum to his father Leonard's very practical work the most influential argument for the Copernican system in England.
	www.math.dartmouth.edu /~matc/Readers/renaissance.astro/5.0.Digges.html (253 words)

	Ancestors of Robert Erwin William Juch - aqwg31
		Leonard was one of the mathematicians who anticipated the dilemna of Copernicusand Ptolemy, but he kept his own findings uncirculated though published.
		Leonard and his son Thomas were both mathematicians and were both politically active, sometimes costing the family royal displeasure which translated into lost land.
		Thomas Digges was born 1540/1543 and died 25 Aug 1595.
	www.juch.org /myancestors/aqwg31.asp (3245 words)

	Math and Culture lesson 4-11
		For Digges, the sun stands at the center and, "like a king in the middest of all raygneth and giueth lawes of motion to the rest." It is the "visible" power, a power that without a Newtonian physics, seems derived purely from its spectacular nature.
		Digges calls all that lies within the orbit of the moon the "Globe of Mortalitie" and the "peculiar Empire of death." The earth itself, borrowing from Palingenius, is Digges's dark star.
		Digges was himself a loyal and selfless subject who served his country by overseeing the fortification of Dover harbor and serving as muster-master general in the Netherlands.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~matc/MathCulture/Digges.html (2117 words)

	Leonard Digges (II) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Leonard Digges (1588 – 1635) was a seventeenth-century poet and translator, a member of the prominent Digges family of Kent—son of the astronomer Thomas Digges (1545-95), grandson of the mathematician Leonard Digges (1520-59), and younger brother of statesman Sir Dudley Digges (1583-1639).
		The younger Leonard Digges graduated from University College, Oxford in 1606; in 1626 he was awarded an M.A. and was bestowed the right to live at University College, which he did till his death.
		Leonard Digges' brother, Sir Dudley Digges, was, among his other offices and duties, a member of the council of the Virginia Company that launched the colony at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leonard_Digges_(II) (391 words)

	Digges, Leonard (c.1520-c.1559) and Thomas (c.1545-1595)
		Leonard Digges was educated at Oxford and made his name as a mathematician, s surveyor, and an author of several books.
		Thomas’s observations of the supernova of 1572 (see Tycho's Star) were used by Tycho Brahe in his analysis of this event.
		It has been suggested that Digges may have met Giordano Bruno during the latter's stay in England and derived some of his ideas from the Italian.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/D/Digges.html (341 words)

	The Galileo Project
		James Digges of Digges Court, Barnham, Kent, was from an ancient family of Kent.
		Digges' Prognostication, first published in 1553, apparently to earn money after his estate was attainted for treason, and then reprinted frequently until 1605, was an almanac with, among other things, astronomical information, for example on how to determine the hour at night from the stars, and information about instruments for observation.
		Digges dedicated Prognostication of Right Good Effect, 1555, to Lord Clinton, later the Earl of Lincoln, who apparently saved Digges from execution for his participation in Wyatt's revellion under Mary.
	galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/digges_leo.html (515 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Baltimore
		Puritans who had been given an asylum in Maryland rebelled and seised the government (165868) and Catholics were excluded from the administration of the province and restrained in the exercise of their faith.
		apostasy of Benedict Leonard Calvert (1713) was a cruel blow to the persecuted Catholics.
		Leonard Neale, a native of Maryland, was selected, and was consecrated 7 December, 1800, at the
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02228a.htm (6096 words)

	Stratford Strikes Back
		Digges, a poet of no particular distinction, contributed a commendatory verse to the First Folio and also referred to "our Will Shakespeare" in a brief inscription on the flyleaf of a book.
		Digges' testimony is valuable because it appears to directly connect the Stratford man with the poet-playwright.
		Finding no comparable evidence for a friendship with Shakespeare, she concludes, "Any relationship between Digges and Shakespeare remains conjectural." Perhaps so, but given the obviously close acquaintance of Shakespeare and Digges's stepfather, the "conjecture" that Shakespeare also knew Digges is not very far-fetched.
	michaelprescott.freeservers.com /stratford.htm (1577 words)

	The Genealogy Website of Adams/Simpson - pafg507 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Governor Edward Digges [Parents] was born on 29 Mar 1621.
		Sr Knight Thome Digges [Parents] was born in 1540.
		Bridget or Sarah Wilsford was born in 1525.
	users.kricket.net /RajinCajun/pafg507.htm (300 words)

	Stratford Monument History
		The preface to the book included a poem by Leonard Digges that directed attention towards the author as being one, William Shake–speare, of Stratford; although why Shakespeare’s name should be hyphenated, and whether Chaucer’s earlier reference to Stratford was reintroduced to suggest ambiguity is, even now, still unclear.
		Visitors to the Warwickshire town of that name, arriving in the belief that they were about to appreciate the environs once shared by England’s great author, could initially be excused their puzzlement at finding not one single mark of recognition for this man’s achievements.
		Leonard Digges’ reference to Stratford, which he deliberately inserted in the first folio, thereby connecting this town with Shakespeare, while at the same time answering the pressing need for local recognition, proved very effective.
	www.dlroper.shakespearians.com /stratford_monument_history.htm (4640 words)

	Seeking a Language in Mathematics 1523-1571
		Leonard Digges in 1556 wrote of the 'arte of numbring [which] hath been...hyd and as it were locked up in strange tongues'[2] The strange tongues are primarily Latin, followed by French, Italian and German.
		Leonard Digges, followed by his son Thomas, produced standard works on land ant: building surveying, Copernican astronomy and practical mathematics for the military.
		Thomas Digges proceeds in the Preface to recognize the value of the use of algebra in harness with geometry, a significant insight fulfilled by Descartes nearly a century later:[123]
	www.tyndale.org /Reformation/1/bmarsden.html (16690 words)

	Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography - New Evidence of an Authorship Problem by Diana Price
		Leonard Digges’s notation concerning “our Will Shakespeare” is found in an inscription (not a letter) written on the fly-leaf of a book by Lope de Vega.
		Leonard Digges’s comments about Lope de Vega and Shakespeare is an impersonal allusion, and fortunately, the inscription is sufficiently straightforward as to leave no room for doubt.
		Leonard Digges subsequently wrote two poems on Shakespeare: the first, published in the 1623 First Folio, refers openly to the playwright's Stratford monument; the second, published in 1640 (but written like the first about 1622), openly credits Shakespeare with the enduring success of his company, the King's Men.
	www.shakespeare-authorship.com /responses/nelson.asp (4866 words)

	Advances in the Hamlet allegory
		Digges was the first Renaissance writer to propose a physically infinite universe [1].
		Digges would have been able to verify Palingenius's hypothesis on the invisibility of some stars by training his father's perspective glass upon the heavens, thereby revealing some that had hitherto never before been seen.
		Digges beheld the starry firmament and in 1576 described his view of the New Heavens, while Harriot saw the Virginia colony and in 1588 described his view of the New World.
	shakespearedigges.org /ox1.htm (8946 words)

	Ron Heisler - Shakespeare and the Ethos of the Rosicrucians
		The tract refers to the cometary observations of John Dee and Thomas Digges in 1572 and to the fall of the Earl of Somerset in the Overbury affair; it also includes three references to the Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross, including a comment on their interpretation of cometary phenomena of 1600 and 1604.
		On the 30th August 1596 a "Richard Field", described as being 37 (actually, he was born in 1561), visited the physician: he had swallowed a gold coin which "lies in the pit of the mouth of the stomach".
		Digges "voluntarily at the arraignment in open Court upon his oath witnessed how Sir Thomas had imparted to him his readinesse to be imployed in an Ambassage."
	levity.com /alchemy/h_shake.html (4953 words)

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		Not only was Dudley Digges involved in relaying information that prompted the writing of The Tempest, but his younger brother Leonard praised the Bard in a poem in the Folio edition of 1623.
		Shakespeare lived near to the Digges' home when he was in London and after the death of Thomas Digges in 1595, his widow Anne married Thomas Russell whom Shakespeare had appointed as overseer of his will.
		Digges' conviction of the infinity of 'stars innumerable' indicates some kind of optical penetration of space" [59].
	www.astro.psu.edu /users/usher/er.html (6021 words)

	herndon digges to adam eve (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Governor Edward Digges, settled in Virginia circa 1650, member of Council 1654-75, Governor of Virginia in 1655; m.
		Thomas Digges of Digges Court, Kent, Mathematician, B.A. Cambridge, 1551, M.P. (Member of Parliament) 1572, Muster - Master General of the Armies of the Low Countries, 1586-94, d.
		August 24, 1595, son of Leonard Digges of Wotten Court, Kent, d.
	www.quedums1.org /descentfromadam.html (442 words)

	mcompeerpart2of3
		His son Thomas Digges (c.1546-1595), protégé, close friend and virtually adopted son of John Dee, was of an even more pronounced scientific mentality.
		Thomas Digges’ son was named Leonard Digges after his grandfather and was the same L. Digges who wrote the verse “TO THE MEMORIE of the deceafed Authour Maifter W. Shakespeare” at the beginning of the First Folio edition of the collected works of Shakespeare in 1623.
		Leonard Digges’ father, Thomas Digges, had close connections to the Bacon family.
	www.sirbacon.org /mcompeerpart2of3.htm (9102 words)

	Digges
		Generation 5/ Roger Digges, armor bearer of the parish of Barham in Kent, in the 49th year of King Edward III, married Albina, who is buried in the church of Barham.
		Generation 11/ Leonard Digges of Wooten Court ("the English Mathematician") was educated at Oxford and was a skilled architect, expert surveyor, and a considerable author.
		Eugene Digges was a graduate of Georgetown University and the University of New York.
	www.swycaffer.com /family/digges.html (1481 words)

	Diana Price
		Anti-Stratfordians of an earlier generation could be forgiven for imagining that Leonard Digges may have been ignorant of the full details of Shakespeare's connection to Stratford.
		Thanks to discoveries by Leslie Hotson, however, we now know that Digges was the step-son of William Shakespeare's trusted friend and neighbor Thomas Russell; that Russell maintained a residence about 4 miles south-east of Stratford and had dealings with Stratford merchants; and that Russell lived within 200 yards of Shakespeare in London.
		For her, Leonard Digges is no closer to being an acquaintance of William Shakespeare after Hotson's remarkable discoveries than he was before.
	socrates.berkeley.edu /~ahnelson/price.html (1833 words)

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		William Shakespeare, and what he hath left us." Jonson is also thought to be the most likely author of the poem "To the reader" opposite the engraving on the title page, signed "B.I." (Ben Ionson).
		Digges was the stepson of Shakespeare's Stratford friend Thomas Russell, and kept close ties with Stratford to the end of his life.
		William Shakespeare"; and the anonymous "An Elegie on the death of that famous Writer and Actor, M. William Shakespeare" (which must have been written before 1637, since it speaks of Ben Jonson in the present tense).
	www.bcpl.net /~tross/ws/eushax (1062 words)

	Lens on the Web
		If you are a Leonard with a Web page, feel free to drop me a note at leonard@cleavelin.net with your URL, and I'll be happy to add it to this ever growing list.
		Leonard's going for the minimalist approach in this one, which I find cool, especially after such things as the excesses of the Hampster Dance.
		The Official Leonard Bernstein Site The official Website dealing with the life, times, and career of the legendary conductor of the N.Y. Philharmonic, and the man who, for years, was synonymous with "classical music" in the minds of Americans.
	www.cleavelin.net /leonards.html (1258 words)

	Infinity, and the sun in the centre
		The first modern* astronomer to propose that the sun is in the centre of the planets (not a planet itself, revolving around the Earth) was Copernicus (a Latinizing of the Polish Kopérnic).
		The original version of this diagram was published by Thomas Digges, an Englishman, in 1576.
		Notice that in the orb of the earth, where the moon's orbit is also indicated, Digges retains the traditional spheres of earth, water, air, and fire.
	ise.uvic.ca /Library/SLT/ideas/copernicus.html (352 words)

	Leonard Digges - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Leonard Digges is also sometimes credited with independently inventing the reflecting, and probably the refracting telescope as part of his need to see accurately over long distances during his surveying works.
		Archimedes also (as some suppose) with a glass framed by revolution of a section Parabolicall, fired the Roman navy in the sea coming to the siege of Syracuse.
		Francis R. Johnson, “The Influence of Thomas Digges on the Progress of Modern Astronomy in Sixteenth-Century England,” Osiris 1 (January 1936): 390-410
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leonard_Digges (435 words)

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