performance makes it dubious. Leonard Digges, born about 1515, was the only son of James Digges (born c.1473), esquire, of Digges Court and Broome in Barham...
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Leonard Digges may refer to: Leonard Digges (scientist) (c. 1515–c. 1559), English mathematician and surveyor Leonard Digges (writer) (1588–1635), his...
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Digges had two brothers, James and Daniel, and three sisters, Mary, who married a man with the surname of Barber; Anne, who married William Digges; and...
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Leonard Digges (/dɪɡz/; 1588 – 7 April 1635) was a Hispanist and minor poet, a younger son of the astronomer Thomas Digges (1545–95) and younger brother...
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possible telescope inventors Leonard Digges (1520–1559) Did the reflecting telescope have English origins? Leonard and Thomas Digges by Colin A Ronan, M.Sc...
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of Shakespeare's plays (1623), given that his friend and colleague Leonard Digges wrote the third. F. E. Halliday, A Shakespeare Companion 1564-1964,...
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First Folio of Shakespeare's works was published, prefaced by a poem by Leonard Digges that mentions "thy Stratford moniment" [sic]. John Weever transcribed...
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father of William Digges and Cole Digges (burgess) Leonard Digges (scientist) (1520–1559), mathematician and surveyor Leonard Digges (writer) (1588–1635)...
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telescopes, introduction". www.bo.astro.it. 16th century scientist Leonard Digges was described as pointing an early reflector/refractor device at the...
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Digges Cove (Bulgarian: залив Дигс, romanized: zaliv Digges, IPA: ['zaliv 'digs]) is the 1.77 km wide cove indenting for 860 m the north coast of Elephant...
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Bruyn's paternal aunt, Joan Bruyn, married John Digges, great-grandfather of the scientist, Leonard Digges. On her father's side Elizabeth Bruyn was descended...
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Burbage Richard Burbage Robert Chester (poet) Henry Condell The Dark Lady Leonard Digges (writer) Fair Youth Richard Field (printer) John Fletcher (playwright)...
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surveying textbook A geometric practice named Pantometria (1571) by Leonard Digges. The origin of the word is unknown. The first part of the Neo-Latin...
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audiences at the time, and for many years afterwards. According to Leonard Digges, writing shortly after Shakespeare's death, while many plays could not...
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and "To the Memory of the Deceased Author, Master W. Shakespeare" by Leonard Digges. Both explicit testimony by his contemporaries and strong circumstantial...
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Dudley Digges (19 May 1583 – 18 March 1639) was an English diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1610 and 1629. Digges was also...
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accurately surveyed and plotted for legal and commercial purposes. Leonard Digges described a theodolite that measured horizontal angles in his book A...
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Thames. Londoners flocked there to see the first part of Henry IV, Leonard Digges recording, "Let but Falstaff come, Hal, Poins, the rest ... and you...
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introduction by Emilio Cotarelo y Mori. Translated into English by Leonard Digges in 1622 as Gerardo the Unfortunate Spaniard. Chisholm 1911. This article incorporates...
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appears to have been popular with audiences at the time. According to Leonard Digges, writing shortly after Shakespeare's death, many plays could not get...
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John and Thomas Grey (brothers of Suffolk), Sir Nicholas Arnold, and Leonard Digges, a mathematician. A number of historians have named Thomas as the original...
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device was said to have been employed by mathematician and surveyor Leonard Digges and Bourne was asked to investigate it by Queen Elizabeth I's chief...
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and princes. This was supported by scientists like Johannes Muller, Leonard Digges, and Johannes Kepler. However, there were skeptics. In the 14th century...
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invented. 1570 — The writings of Thomas Digges describes how his father, English mathematician and surveyor Leonard Digges (1520–1559), made use of a "proportional...
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Virginia colloquially named the "Cole Digges House." The eldest son of prominent planter and politician Dudley Digges(1665-1710) and his wife, the former...
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(d. 1587) Thomas Watson, English Catholic bishop (d. 1584) probable Leonard Digges, English mathematician and surveyor (d. c. 1559) Jean Maillard, French...
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Cole Digges who served in both houses of the Virginia legislature. The third son born to the former Elizabeth Foliott Power and her husband Cole Digges, he...
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company founder Father Francis of Aberdeen, Catholic Trinitarian friar Leonard Digges, English mathematician and surveyor (b. c. 1515) Conn O'Neill, 1st Earl...
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Presidential Address to the BAA in which he argued that Leonard Digges, father of Thomas Digges was the originator of the reflecting telescope sometime...
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grandfather, Yorktown merchant Cole Digges who served in both houses of the Virginia legislature, and his cousin Cole Digges (d. 1777) who briefly represented...
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