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Quadratura del circolo, 1622

Benedetto Scotto (15th century – 16th century) was an Italian cartographer, mathematician and navigator. [1]

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. [2] [3]

His works on squaring the circle (1622) and on longitude (1623) [4] were also published in French. [5]

Works

  • Scotto, Benedetto (1621). Quadratura del circolo che per quaranta sette dimostrationi geometriche vien verificata (in Italian). In Pariggi: Jean Bessin.
  • Scotto, Benedetto (1622). Pseudotetragonismou elegkos, seu Refutatio falsae quadrationis circuli (in Latin). Parisiis: Jean Moreau.
  • Scotto, Benedetto (1622). Quadratura del circolo (in Italian). In Parigi: Jean Bessin.

References

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Quadratura del circolo, 1622

Benedetto Scotto (15th century – 16th century) was an Italian cartographer, mathematician and navigator. [1]

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. [2] [3]

His works on squaring the circle (1622) and on longitude (1623) [4] were also published in French. [5]

Works

  • Scotto, Benedetto (1621). Quadratura del circolo che per quaranta sette dimostrationi geometriche vien verificata (in Italian). In Pariggi: Jean Bessin.
  • Scotto, Benedetto (1622). Pseudotetragonismou elegkos, seu Refutatio falsae quadrationis circuli (in Latin). Parisiis: Jean Moreau.
  • Scotto, Benedetto (1622). Quadratura del circolo (in Italian). In Parigi: Jean Bessin.

References


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