# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leonard-digges
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:59:40.545Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leonard-digges"
name: "Leonard Digges"
slug: "leonard-digges"
description: "Leonard Digges was a well-known English mathematician and surveyor, credited with the invention of the theodolite, and a great populariser of science through his writings in English on surveying, cartography, and military engineering. His birth date is variously suggested as c.1515 or c.1520."
tagline: "British mathematician"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1515"
deathDate: "1559"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.809036
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "伦纳德·迪格斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Digges"
    title: "Leonard Digges"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Digges"
    title: "Leonard Digges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Digges"
    title: "Leonard Digges"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Digges"
    title: "Leonard Digges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%BE%E0%B5%BC%E0%B4%A1%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%97%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%97%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D"
    title: "ലിയോനാർഡ് ഡിഗ്ഗസ്"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Digges"
    title: "Leonard Digges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3068356"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump