The History of Terrorism
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1583 Lord Burghley appointed Digges, with John Chamber and Henry Savile, to sit on a commission to consider whether England should adopt the Gregorian calendar, as proposed by Dee.
He was the first to expound the Copernican system in English but discarded the notion of a fixed shell of immoveable stars to postulate infinitely many stars at varying distances.
Sir Dudley Digges
Thomas Digges was also first to postulate the "dark night sky paradox".