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Thomas Digges

1546 - 1595

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Digges has received more than 142,551 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Thomas Digges is the 654th most popular mathematician (down from 610th in 2019), the 3,046th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,956th in 2019) and the 64th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Thomas Digges ranks 654 out of 1,004. Before him are Johann Karl Burckhardt, Efim Zelmanov, Fritz Noether, Grégoire de Saint-Vincent, Charles Dupin, and Jacobus Golius. After him are Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, Jerzy Różycki, Johann Schreck, Nicolas Fuss, Cesare Arzelà, and Oswald Veblen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1546, Thomas Digges ranks 11. Before him are Bartholomeus Spranger, Heo Jun, Takeda Katsuyori, Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Charlotte of Bourbon, and Johann Fischart.  Among people deceased in 1595, Thomas Digges ranks 17. Before him are Jeremias II of Constantinople, Louis Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers, John Frederick II, Duke of Saxony, Pasquale Cicogna, Magnus, Duke of Östergötland, and Faizi. After him are Jean de Sponde, and Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Digges ranks 3,046 out of 8,785. Before him are Edward Hardwicke (1932), Genesis P-Orridge (1950), Anthony Hope (1863), Richard Pococke (1704), Andrew Loog Oldham (1944), and Samuel Baker (1821). After him are Ted Drake (1912), Dorothy Garrod (1892), Frank Watson Dyson (1868), Jimmie Nicol (1939), Felicity Jones (1983), and Roy Urquhart (1901).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Thomas Digges ranks 64. Before him are William Burnside (1852), Edward Arthur Milne (1896), William Whiston (1667), John Pell (1611), Robert Simson (1687), and David Gregory (1659). After him are John Lennox (1943), Max Newman (1897), Ian Stewart (1945), John Cairncross (1913), E. T. Whittaker (1873), and Henry Dudeney (1857).

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