Kenelm Digby

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".

This article is about the seventeenth-century English courtier, diplomat and natural philosopher. For other people named Kenelm Digby, see Kenelm Digby (disambiguation).
A portrait of Kenelm Digby by the studio of Anthony van Dyck
An engraving of Kenelm Digby
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