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This Dark Star: Thomas Digges, the Scientific Revolution, and the Infinite Universe

This Dark Star: Thomas Digges, the Scientific Revolution, and the Infinite Universe

Ladner, Charles L.

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1669826465
ISBN13: 9781669826460
Publisher: Xlibris Us
Published: May 26 2022
Pages: 204
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book is unique. It is the first and only biographical study of the life of Thomas Digges who was a 16th century astronomer and the first to stipulate an infinite universe with countless number of stars. Previously all astronomers believed that the stars were attached to a dome or shell surrounding the planets. Digges shattered that illusion by observing the stars through a telescope some thirty years before Galileo. As a Parliamentarian and man of affairs, he was responsible for the reconstruction of Dover Harbor, the largest public works project during the Elizabethan era, and he served as Muster-Master General for the British Expeditionary forces assisting the Dutch in their war of independence.

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