Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Leonard Digges
Leonard Digges,
Was born at Barham in the beginning of the sixteenth century and educated at University College, Oxford. "His mind," (says Fuller) "most inclined him to Mathematics, and he was the best architect in that age for all manner of buildings, for conveniency, pleasure, state, strength, being excellent at fortifications." He wrote a book on the measuring of land entitled "Tectonicum," published 1556, also a "Book of Rules," to judge the weather by "Sun, Moon and Stars," and other works. He died in 1573.
[See "Wood's Athenæ Oxon.," by Bliss, "Biographia Britannica." "Fuller's Worthies," "Hasted's Kent," "Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica."]