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Title
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Leonard Digges (c. 1515 – c. 1559) A Prognostication Everlasting of Right Good Effect
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Description
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The second impression augmented by the author, printed by Thomas Gemini & Co London, 1556 [D.-L.L.] M⁰ [Digges] SR Countless generations have studied the sky to understand and predict the weather. This text by the mathematician Leonard Digges includes ways of forecasting through the planets’ positions and conjunctions. It is an example of ‘astro-meteorology’, which combined contemporary knowledge of astrology, astronomy and weather folklore. Although such thinking was dismissed as magical even by some of its contemporaries, it used table calculations and paper instruments which resembled later scientific methods. Contemporary science accepts that other planets affect the Earth but what that means for the weather is still not entirely understood.
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Creator
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Leonard Digges
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Date
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1594
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Identifier
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[DeM] M [Digges] SSR
A Thousand Words for Weather
