Person:Everard Digby (4)

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b.Abt 1550
 
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  1. Kenelm DigbyAbt 1518 - 1590
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Name Everard Digby
Gender Male
Birth[1] Abt 1550
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Everard Digby (born c. 1550) was an English academic theologian, expelled as a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge for reasons that were largely religious. He is known as the author of a 1587 book, written in Latin, that was the first work published in England on swimming; and also as a philosophical teacher, writer and controversialist. The swimming book, De Arte Natandi, was a practical treatise following a trend begun by the archery book Toxophilus of Roger Ascham, of Digby's own college.

According to Eugene D. Hill, in Digby's Theoria Analytica of 1579,

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  1. ↑ Everard Digby (scholar), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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