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The Letters of Thomas Attwood Digges by Robert Henry Elias, Eugene D. Finch, 1982-05

Adventures of Alonso by Thomas Attwood Digges, 1943

Astronomical Thought in Renaissance England: A Study of the English Scientific Writings from 1500 to 1645 by Francis R. Johnson, 1937

A bibliography of Indian geology .. by Thomas Henry Digges La Touche, 2010-08-05

A geometrical practical treatize named Pantometria diuided into three bookes, longimetria, planimetria, and stereometria, containing rules manifolde for ... First published by Thomas Digges. (1591) by Thomas Digges, 2010-07-13

The Theodelitus and Topographical Instrument of Leonard Digges of University College, Oxford. Described by His Son Thomas Digges in 1571. by Thomas (1546-1595). DIGGES, 1927-01-01

LETTERS Of THOMAS ATTWOOD DIGGES (1742 - 1821). by Thomas Attwood].Elias, Robert H. & Finch, Eugene D. - Editors. [Digges, 1982

An essay on ways and means to maintain the honour and safety of England, to encrease trade, merchandize, navigation, ... Written by Sir Walter Raleigh, ... on our harbours, ... by Sir Henry Sheers. by Thomas Digges, 2010-05-29

Adventures of Alonso: Containing Some Striking Anecdotes of the Present Prime Minister of Portugal. by Thomas Atwood & Elias, Robert H. Digges, 1943-01-01

The Portable Elizabethan Reader (Viking Portable Library) by John Donne, Michael Drayton, et all 1946-12

A prognostication everlastinge: Corrected and augmented by Thomas Digges (The English experience, its record in early printed books published in facsimile) by Leonard Digges, 1975

The theodelitus and topographical instrument of Leonard Digges of University College, Oxford: Described by his son Thomas Digges in 1571. Reprinted from ... of Pantometria (Old Ashmolean reprints) by Thomas Digges, 1927

Thomas Digges, the Copernican system, and the idea of the infinity of the universe in 1576 by Francis R Johnson, 1934

In defense of Thomas Digges by William Bell Clark, 1953

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Digges
Thomas Digges. Thomas Digges's father was Leonard Digges who was himself a finemathematician who wrote on various scientific topics including surveying.
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Digges.html

Extractions: Thomas Digges 's father was Leonard Digges who was himself a fine mathematician who wrote on various scientific topics including surveying. Thomas received his early education from his father but, when he was fourteen years old, his father died and at that time Thomas decided that he wanted to continue his father's work. John Dee essentially seems to have stepped in to act as a father to the young Thomas who received advanced mathematical instruction from Dee . He was to remain a friend of Dee 's throughout his life and undertook joint work with him. Digges wrote on platonic solids and archimedian solids and his contributions appear in Pantometria which he finished in 1571. This work included contributions by Digges's father Leonard who had been working on it at the time of his death. The completed work contains Digges' description of how lenses could be combined to make a telescope. 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. We know that Digges, among other instruments used a cross-staff to determine the positions of stars, planets and comets but when a new star appeared in 1572 he used a six foot ruler which he suspended from a tree which he used to determine whether the new star moved in relation to the other stars close to in in the sky.
Quotation By Thomas Digges
Thomas Digges (1546 1595). This ball every 24 hours by naturall, uniformeand wonderful slie and smooth motion rouleth rounde, making
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Quotations2/824.html
Thomas Digges
Thomas Digges, A perfit description of the Caelestial Orbes, 1576 Close
http://inicia.es/de/aribas/digges.html
Thomas Digges - Acapedia - Free Knowledge, For All
acapedia.org home acapedia feedback. Friends of Acapedia Thomas Digges. FromWikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (There is currently no text in this page).
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Digges, Thomas
Catalog of the Scientific Community digges, thomas. The work includes atreatise on the geometric solids that is certainly by thomas digges.
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Catalog/Files/digges_tho.html

Extractions: Digges, Thomas Note: the creators of the Galileo Project and this catalogue cannot answer email on genealogical questions. 1. Dates Born: Kent (probably Wotton, near Canterbury), 1545 or 46 Died: London, 24 Aug. 1595 Dateinfo: Birth Uncertain Lifespan: 2. Father Occupation: Gentry, Scientist Leonard Digges, who is also in this catalogue, was from an old, established family of Kent. Clearly wealthy. However, when Thomas Digges was less than ten his father was attainted for treason in the Wyatt rebellion against Mary and his estate confiscated. After the accession of Elizabeth, Digges was able to reclaim the estate of his now dead father. It is simply not clear what one can say about the economic circumstances in which he was reared. 3. Nationality Birth: English Career: English Death: English 4. Education Schooling: No University The DNB statement about Digges at Cambridge confuses him with another, earlier Digges. Wood asserts that Digges studied at Oxford. There is no proof that he was ever at either university. By Digges's own statement he received his mathematical education first from his father and then from Dee.
Maryland Historical Society Library: Digges Of Warburton Papers, 1680-1810, MS 2
Details transfer of property from thomas Attwood digges to Christopher Lowndes.
http://www.mdhs.org/library/Mss/ms000246.html

Extractions: Descriptive Summary Digges of Warburton Papers, 1680-1810 MS 246 Maryland Historical Society Baltimore MD 21201-4674 Calendar 1683, Oct. 27. Act of the Lower House of the General Assembly (Md). An Act limiting extent of Attachments, etc. 1683, Nov. 5. Court Order. Proceedings upon complaint by Wm. Digges vs. Josias Kendall over misrepresentation of amount of land sold by Kendall to Digges. 1685, June 12. Hollyday, Thomas, and Beall, Ninian. Deeds. Ninian Beall assigns 184 acres to Thomas Hollyday from 500 acre warrant. 1688, Sept. 24. Digges, William. Confiscation Order. Taken against goods and chattel of Capt. Josias Kendall to a value of 40,000 1b. of tobacco, until Kendall is shown to come to trial. 1688, Sept. 29. Digges, William. Account. Shows debt of Josias Kendall to Wm. Digges.
The Calestiall Orbs
of the Celestial Orbs The Zodiake of Life. thomas digges. A Perfect
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/readers/renaissance.astro/5.1.Orbs.html

Extractions: Bibliography To The Reader [note 1: i. e. the Ptolemaic theory underlying his father's almanac.] De his explicatum estea qua potuimusfacultate. Howbeit his disciples have not with like sobriety maintained the same. Thus much for my own part in this case I will only say: there is no doubt but of a true ground truer effects may be produced than of principles that are false, and of true principles falsehood or absurdity cannot be inferred. If, therefore, the Earth be situate immoveable in the Center of the world, why find we not Theorickes upon that ground to produce effects as true and certain as these of Copernicus? Why cast we not away those and motions irregular, seeing our own Philosopher Aristotle himself, the light of our Universities, hath taught us: Simplicis corporis simplicem oportet esse motwn . But if contrary, it be found impossible (the Earth's stability being granted) but that we must necessarily fall into these absurdities, and cannot by any means avoid them. Why shall we so much dote in the appearance of our senses, which many ways may be abused, and not suffer our selves to be directed by the rule of Reason, which the great GOD hath given us as a Lamp to lighten the darkness of our understanding, and the perfect guide to lead us to the golden branch of Verity amid the Forest of errors.
Genealogy Data
Family Spouse digges, thomas. Birth Abt 1488 digges Court England
http://members.fullnet.net/nixfam/ged2html/dat34.html
Digges, Leonard
precisely because it was mostly published by his son, thomas digges, with hisown work mixed in. Louise Diehl Patterson, Leonard and thomas digges.
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Catalog/Files/digges_leo.html

Extractions: Digges, Leonard Note: the creators of the Galileo Project and this catalogue cannot answer email on genealogical questions. 1. Dates Born: Digges Court, near Canterbury, Kent, c.1520 Digges was born prior to 1530-1, when he was listed in a visitation of Kent. He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1537. Died: England, c.1559 Dateinfo: Both Dates Uncertain Lifespan: 2. Father Occupation: Gentry James Digges of Digges Court, Barnham, Kent, was from an ancient family of Kent. Clearly wealthy. 3. Nationality Birth: English Career: English Death: English 4. Education Schooling: No University May have attended a University, but no real evidence and certainly no proof. Biographia britannica says University College, Oxford, and Wood says he was at Oxford but the college is not known. It seems fairly certain that he took no degree if indeed he did attend a university. 5. Religion Affiliation: Anglican Leonard Digges participated in Wyatt's rebellion against Mary. From what little I know of it, the rebellion was as much against Spanish interference as against Catholicism, and I have found no statement whatever about Digges' motivation. 6. Scientific Disciplines
Digges
Biography of thomas digges (15461595) thomas digges's father was Leonard digges who was himself a fine mathematician who wrote on various scientific topics
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Digges.html

Extractions: Thomas Digges 's father was Leonard Digges who was himself a fine mathematician who wrote on various scientific topics including surveying. Thomas received his early education from his father but, when he was fourteen years old, his father died and at that time Thomas decided that he wanted to continue his father's work. John Dee essentially seems to have stepped in to act as a father to the young Thomas who received advanced mathematical instruction from Dee . He was to remain a friend of Dee 's throughout his life and undertook joint work with him. Digges wrote on platonic solids and archimedian solids and his contributions appear in Pantometria which he finished in 1571. This work included contributions by Digges's father Leonard who had been working on it at the time of his death. The completed work contains Digges' description of how lenses could be combined to make a telescope. 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. We know that Digges, among other instruments used a cross-staff to determine the positions of stars, planets and comets but when a new star appeared in 1572 he used a six foot ruler which he suspended from a tree which he used to determine whether the new star moved in relation to the other stars close to in in the sky.
The Calestiall Orbs
thomas digges was born circa 1546about three years after the publication of De Revolutionibus.
http://hilbert.dartmouth.edu/~matc/Readers/renaissance.astro/5.0.Digges.html

Extractions: Thomas Digges was born circa 1546-about three years after the publication of De Revolutionibus . 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. In 1576 he took it upon himself to edit the new edition of his deceased father's almanac, A Prognostication everlasting . 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. A Perfit Description is, to a large extent, a paraphrased translation of the first book of Copernicus'
Digges, Thomas (c.1546-95)
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z digges, thomas (c.154695)
http://www.angelfire.com/on2/daviddarling/Digges.htm

Extractions: English mathematician and astronomer who was the first to promote in Britain the heliocentric view of the solar system due to Copernicus . He was also a pioneer of the enlarged, stellar universe, maintaining that the stars, instead of being fixed to a crystalline sphere, were other suns lying at great distances. However, although he helped pave the way for others, like Huygens , to contemplate the possibility of extrasolar planets and life, he continued to regard the Sun as special and centrally located in the Universe. 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.
VARIOUS SURNAME RECORDS
digges, Edward 1 33 Fauquier Co. digges, thomas 1 2 Fauquier Co. digges,Dudley 2 84 Louisa Co. digges, thomas 1 0 Louisa Co. digges, Col.
http://www.angelfire.com/tn/anitasue/VaTn.html
The Calestiall Orbs
thomas digges (C. 15461595) thomas digges was born circa 1546-aboutthree years after the publication of De Revolutionibus. He
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/readers/renaissance.astro/5.0.Digges.html

Extractions: Thomas Digges was born circa 1546-about three years after the publication of De Revolutionibus . 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. In 1576 he took it upon himself to edit the new edition of his deceased father's almanac, A Prognostication everlasting . 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. A Perfit Description is, to a large extent, a paraphrased translation of the first book of Copernicus'
à Wood, Anthony Addison, Joseph Abbot, George Abbot, John Abernethie,
Digby, Sir Kenelm. digges, Dudley. digges, thomas. Dillon, Wentworth
http://www.lib.umich.edu/eebo/documents/DoneList.pdf
Genealogy Data
digges, thomas I. Birth 1570. Death 24 AUG 1595 St. Mary Aldermanbury, London, ENG
http://home.twmi.rr.com/petemcl/genealogy/dat48.html
ARCHIVES, MARYLAND PROVINCE, SOCIETY OF JESUS: INDEX
digges, GEORGECORRESP.-(1865-66) 26 10 digges, HENRY 32 4 digges, IGNATIUS-1756 3 12 digges, thomas-INDENTURE W/ N. ST.
http://gulib.lausun.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/index/i119}49.htm
Giordano Bruno - (Fig. 8. Thomas Digges' Representation Of The Universe.)
Fig. 8. thomas digges' representation of the universe. From his enlargededition of Leonard digges, Progostication Euerlasting (London, 1576).
http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/brunof08.htm
[25.01] Thomas Digges And Giordano Bruno: 400 Years Of Plurality Of Worlds
25.01 thomas digges and Giordano Bruno 400 Years of Plurality ofWorlds. CJ Corbally (Vatican Observatory). Some four hundred years
http://www.aas.org/publications/baas/v31n3/aas194/130.htm

Extractions: Historical, Oral, Monday, May 31, 1999, 10:00-11:30am, Marquette [Previous] [Session 25] [Next] C.J. Corbally (Vatican Observatory) Some four hundred years ago was the fascinating era when modern astronomy began. Its ``beginning" came with the establishment of the heliocentric universe in people's minds. From Nicolaus Copernicus, through Thomas Digges, to Giordano Bruno we can trace how the Copernican system progressed to the idea of an infinite universe, and how this gave birth to a new tradition in thinking about the plurality of worlds. While this progression does not appear to have been by direct encounter between the principal players, the vision of one was incorporated into the thought of the next. Such progression in our understanding of the universe continues today and presumably tomorrow. If the author provided an email address or URL for general inquiries, it is a s follows:
[120.05] Harriot, Digges, And The Ghost In {\it Hamlet}.
leading characters in the play with cosmologists from the time of Ptolemy (Claudius)to Tycho Brahe (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern) and thomas digges (Hamlet).
http://www.aas.org/publications/baas/v30n4/aas193/168.htm

Extractions: Oral, Saturday, January 9, 1999, 2:00-3:30pm, Room 9 (C) [Previous] [Session 120] [Next] P.D. Usher (PSU) The cosmic allegorical interpretation of Hamlet (BAAS 28, 1305, 1996; 29, 1262, 1997; Giornale di Astronomia 24:3, 27, 1998) may be regarded as a Galilean postulatum Shake-speare ) that thou went'st so soone'' and ``An Actors Art, can dye, and liue to acte a second part'' are explained, as are sources for The Tempest , why the younger Leonard may have been selected to write for the First Folio, and the significance of the puns on excavation in Hamlet and on the Stratford tombstone. If you would like more information about this abstract, please follow the link to http://www.psu.edu/ur/NEWS/SCIENCETECH/Hamlet.html . This link was provided by the author. When you follow it, you will leave the Web site for this meeting; to return, you should use the Back comand on your browser. [Previous] [Session 120] [Next]

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