Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Thomas Lydiat (1572–1646) was a clergyman and mathematician in England. In his time he was noted as a chronologer and was an opponent in controversy of Scaliger. He is now considered, albeit in a very different type of theory, to have provided in 1605 a clear suggestion of an oval orbit in astronomy, anticipating Johannes Kepler, with whom he also had a controversial exchange relating to chronology.His contemporaries ranked him with Joseph Mede and Francis Bacon.. }
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- Thomas_Lydiat comment "Thomas Lydiat (1572–1646) was a clergyman and mathematician in England. In his time he was noted as a chronologer and was an opponent in controversy of Scaliger. He is now considered, albeit in a very different type of theory, to have provided in 1605 a clear suggestion of an oval orbit in astronomy, anticipating Johannes Kepler, with whom he also had a controversial exchange relating to chronology.His contemporaries ranked him with Joseph Mede and Francis Bacon.".