Editing Thomas Digges (section)

{{short description|English mathematician and astronomer}}
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| name              = Thomas Digges
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| birth_date        = c. 1546
| birth_place       = [[Wootton, Kent|Wootton]], Kent, England
| death_date        = {{death date|df=yes|1595|08|24|1546|01|01}}
| death_place       = London, England
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| nationality       = English
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| field             = [[Astronomer]] and mathematician
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| academic_advisors = [[John Dee]]
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| known_for         = Proposing that the universe is infinite in extent
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| footnotes         = Son of [[Leonard Digges (scientist)|Leonard Digges]], and father of [[Dudley Digges]] and [[Leonard Digges (II)]]
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'''Thomas Digges''' ({{IPAc-en|d|ɪ|g|z}}; c. 1546 – 24 August 1595) was an English mathematician and [[astronomer]]. He was the first to expound the [[Copernican heliocentrism|Copernican system]] in English but discarded the notion of a fixed shell of immoveable stars to postulate infinitely many stars at varying distances.<ref>{{Harvnb|Johnston|2004b}}.</ref> He was also first to postulate the "[[dark night sky paradox]]".<ref>[[Jim Al-Khalili|Al-Khalili, Jim]], ''Everything and Nothing'' – 1. Everything, BBC Four, 9:00PM Mon, 21 March 2011</ref>