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

By Charles L. Ladner
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By Charles L. Ladner
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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 re...

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