Leonard Digges (Person)
Leonard Digges
1515 AD - 1559 AD
16th century English scientist who invented a functioning telescope sometime between 1540 and 1559
According to son, Thomas, in his 1591 Pantometria, his father
hath by proportional Glasses duly situate in convenient angles, not only discovered things far off, read letters, numbered pieces of money with the very coin and superscription thereof, cast by some of his friends of purpose upon downs in open fields, but also seven miles off declared what hath been done at that instant in private places.
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1546 AD
