Everard Digby (scholar)

Everard Digby (born c. 1550) was an English academic theologian, expelled as a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge for reasons that were largely religious. He is known as the author of a 1587 book, written in Latin, that was the first work published in England on swimming; and also as a philosophical teacher, writer and controversialist. The swimming book, De Arte Natandi, was a practical treatise following a trend begun by the archery book Toxophilus of Roger Ascham, of Digby's own college.

According to Eugene D. Hill, in Digby's Theoria Analytica of 1579,

his intuition of many 'mysteries' in Aristotle's Posterior Analytics leads him to develop a theory which conflates technical logic with a vast mass of Neoplatonic and Cabalistic lore taken (not always with acknowledgement) from Ficino's translation of Plotinus and from the Cabalistic dialogues of Johannes Reuchlin.