Leonard Digges
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| Gender | Male |
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| Born | Barham |
| United Kingdom | |
| Died | Kent |
| United Kingdom | |
| Children | Thomas Digges |
| Grandchildren | Dudley Digges |
| Leonard Digges | |
| Ursula Digges | |
| Margaret Digges | |
| Great grandchildren | Edward Digges |
| Dudley Digges | |
| Job | Mathematician |
| Books | A prognostication everlasting |
| A Booke Named Tectonicon, Brieflie Shewing the Exact Measuring, and Speedie Reckoning All Manner of Land, Squares, Timber, Stone, Steeples, Pillers, Globes, Etc. . . . with Other Things Pleasant and Necessarie, Most Conducible for Surueyers, Landmeaters, IO | |
| An Arithmeticall Militarie Treatise, Named Stratioticos | |
| A Prognostication Euerlasting of Ryght Goode Effecte | |
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| ID | 1192367 |
Leonard Digges Life story
Leonard Digges was a well-known English mathematician and surveyor, credited with the invention of the theodolite, and a great populariser of science through his writings in English on surveying, cartography, and military engineering. His birth date is variously suggested as c. 1515 or c. 1520.
