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Kenelm Digby

This article is about the seventeenth-century English courtier, diplomat and natural philosopher. For other people named Kenelm Digby, see Kenelm Digby (disambiguation).

Sir Kenelm Digby by Sir Anthony van Dyck, c. 1640

Sir Kenelm Digby (11 July 1603 – 11 June 1665) was an English courtier and diplomat. He was also a highly reputed natural philosopher, astrologer and known as a leading Roman Catholic intellectual and Blackloist. For his versatility, he is described in John Pointer's Oxoniensis Academia (1749) as the "Magazine of all Arts and Sciences, or (as one stiles him) the Ornament of this Nation".[1]

  1. ^ Pointer, John (1749). Oxoniensis Academia: Or, The Antiquities and Curiosities of the University of Oxford. Oxford: S. Birt, in Ave-Maria Lane; and J. Ward, in Little-Britain. p. 186. Retrieved 5 May 2015.

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