Flourished  England, 16th century
Englishman Anthony Ascham's A Lytel Treatyse of Astronomy (1552) is one of the earliest astronomy books written in English. A chronological list appears in the selected references below.
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Johnson, Francis R. (1968). Astronomical Thought in Renaissance England. New York: Octagon Books.
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(2007). Ascham [Askham], Anthony. In: Hockey, T., et al. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_78
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