Short answers, pulled from the story.
Thomas Digges was the first to present the Copernican heliocentric model in the English language, in 1576. He also proposed that the universe is infinite, with stars scattered throughout endless space, predating Giordano Bruno's similar argument by eight years. He was the first to formulate the dark night sky paradox.
Thomas Digges published his description in 1576, as an appendix to a new edition of his father Leonard Digges's almanac. The appendix was largely a translation of chapters from Copernicus's De revolutionibus orbium coelestium and was the first time the heliocentric model had been set out for English readers.
Thomas Digges's father was Leonard Digges, born around 1515, a mathematician and surveyor who wrote a perpetual almanac called A Prognostication everlasting. Thomas added his most important scientific work as an appendix to a later edition of that almanac.
The dark night sky paradox asks why the night sky is dark if the universe is infinite and filled with stars in every direction. Thomas Digges was the first to formulate this question, as a consequence of his proposal that stars populate endless space at varying distances.
Thomas Digges attempted to measure the parallax of the 1572 supernova observed by Tycho Brahe, concluding it lay beyond the orbit of the Moon. Aristotle had held that no change could take place among the fixed stars, and the appearance of a new star in that realm directly contradicted that doctrine.
After Thomas Digges died on the 24th of August 1595, his widow Anne St Leger married Thomas Russell of Alderminster in Warwickshire. In 1616, William Shakespeare named Thomas Russell as an overseer of his will.