Benedetto Scotto
Illustration — Quadratura del circolo, 1622 Benedetto Scotto (15th century – 16th century) was an Italian cartographer, mathematician and navigator. Scotto was born in Genoa. He published a treatise in which he proposed to reach the Indies through a crossing to the North in the Arctic Sea.
Benedetto Scotto
- Born
- 1500 · Genoa.
- Died
- 1600
- Occupation
- mathematician · cartographer
- Languages
- Italian · Latin
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Illustration — Quadratura del circolo, 1622 Benedetto Scotto (15th century – 16th century) was an Italian cartographer, mathematician and navigator. Scotto was born in Genoa. He published a treatise in which he proposed to reach the Indies through a crossing to the North in the Arctic Sea.
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His works on squaring the circle (1622) and on longitude (1623) were also published in French.
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1500
Benedetto Scotto born at Genoa.
1600
Benedetto Scotto died.
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- 1.Scotto, Benedetto. thesaurus.cerl.org.
- 2.Giornale ligustico di archeologia, storia e belle arti. 335. 1874.
- 3.Marie-Christine Engels. Merchants, Interlopers, Seamen and Corsairs: The "Flemish" Community in Livorno and Genoa (1615-1635). Uitgeverij Verloren. 108. 1997. 90-6550-570-9.
- 4.Tipografia Gismondi. Storia dell'origine e de' progressi delle matematiche di più autori riunita in commentarj a forma di cronaca ad uso de'giovani studenti dal sacerdote D. Giuseppe De' Sallustj. 128. 1846.
- 5.Presses Paris Sorbonne. Les traductions de l'italien en français au XVIIe siècle. 347–349. 2001. 978-88-8229-249-2.
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