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Leonard Dygges


This article examines Leonard Digges' work, A Prognostication, first published in 1553, which details methods for telling time by the sun and stars using instruments and tables. The accompanying comments describe Digges' instrument as basically a form of equatorial dial with a polar gnomon, which indicates time using a "peculiar Kalendar" for calculations
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