Thomas Hood (1556 – 1620) was an English mathematician and physician, the first lecturer in mathematics appointed in England, a few years before the founding of Gresham College.
The applications in view were military (intended for Captains of train bands, in other words for militia commanders at the time of the Spanish Armada), and subsequently aimed at naval needs and navigation.
The first lectures were in the Staples Inn Chapel, but the regular venue became Smythe's London house, Leadenhall in Gracechurch Street.
He collaborated with the engraver Augustine Ryther on both celestial and terrestrial charts.
[3][5][6][7][8] In later life he lived in Abchurch Lane, London, practiced as a physician, and sold copies of his hemisphere charts.