Everard Digby's De Arte Natandi (The Art of Swimming) was published in 1587. The work was hugely influential, not just providing a practical guide to staying afloat and different strokes but also in its attention to issues of safety.
Born in 1550, Digby was an academic theologian at Cambridge University, though in 1587, the same year as his swimming treatise was published, he was expelled from his college of St John's partly due to his habit of blowing a horn and shouting around the College grounds.
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