Christopher Middleton
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De Arte Natandi Libri Duo written by Everard Digby was translated in English in Christopher Middleton
Christopher Middleton was a Latin-English translator who translated De Arte Natandi Libri Duo, written by Everard Digby into English in 1595.
De Arte Natandi Libri Duo
Everard Digby was a Cambridge academic who wrote De Arte Natandi Libri Duo (or Two Books on the Art of Swimming) in 1587, the first swimming instruction book published in England and written in Latin. The book introduced over 40 different swimming strokes and movements and contains the rules of swimming itself like why bodies float in the first book. The second book teaches practical strokes and contains practice and demonstration including 42 woodcut illustrations that show different body positions in the water.
