MATHEMATICIAN
Thomas Digges
1546 - 1595
Thomas Digges
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 133,582 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Digges is the 613th most popular mathematician (down from 537th in 2019), the 2,964th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,531st in 2019) and the 67th most popular British Mathematician.
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Among MATHEMATICIANS
Among mathematicians, Thomas Digges ranks 613 out of 823. Before him are Ludwig Bieberbach, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana, Jan Śniadecki, Lewis Fry Richardson, Endre Szemerédi, and Al-Nayrizi. After him are David Ruelle, Polyaenus of Lampsacus, Đuro Kurepa, Oswald Veblen, Federico Commandino, and Arthur Moritz Schoenflies.
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Contemporaries
Among people born in 1546, Thomas Digges ranks 10. Before him are Heo Jun, Veronica Franco, Bartholomeus Spranger, Takeda Katsuyori, Charlotte of Bourbon, and Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg. After him is Johann Fischart. Among people deceased in 1595, Thomas Digges ranks 15. Before him are John Hawkins, Thoinot Arbeau, Jeremias II of Constantinople, Louis Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers, John Frederick II, Duke of Saxony, and Pasquale Cicogna. After him are Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel and Jean de Sponde.
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Heo Jun
1546 - 1615
HPI: 61.32
Rank: 4
Veronica Franco
1546 - 1591
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 5
Bartholomeus Spranger
1546 - 1611
HPI: 60.12
Rank: 6
Takeda Katsuyori
1546 - 1582
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Rank: 7
Charlotte of Bourbon
1546 - 1582
HPI: 56.48
Rank: 8
Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg
1546 - 1617
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Thomas Digges
1546 - 1595
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Rank: 10
Johann Fischart
1546 - 1590
HPI: 48.16
Rank: 11
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John Hawkins
1532 - 1595
HPI: 60.43
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Thoinot Arbeau
1520 - 1595
HPI: 58.18
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Jeremias II of Constantinople
1536 - 1595
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Louis Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers
1539 - 1595
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John Frederick II, Duke of Saxony
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Pasquale Cicogna
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Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel
1557 - 1595
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Rank: 16
Jean de Sponde
1557 - 1595
HPI: 44.76
Rank: 17
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Jonathan Penrose
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Brian O'Nolan
1911 - 1966
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Anthony Phillips
1951 - Present
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Roy Urquhart
1901 - 1988
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Andrew Birkin
1945 - Present
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Andy Cole
1971 - Present
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Demetrios Petrokokkinos
1878 - 1942
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Brian G. Marsden
1937 - 2010
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Rank: 2,970
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William Burnside
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