Benedetto Scotto
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
[edit]- Scotto, Benedetto (1621). Quadratura del circolo che per quaranta sette dimostrationi geometriche vien verificata (in Italian). Paris: Jean Bessin.
- Scotto, Benedetto (1622). Pseudotetragonismou elegkos, seu Refutatio falsae quadrationis circuli (in Latin). Paris: Jean Moreau.
- Scotto, Benedetto (1622). Quadratura del circolo (in Italian). Paris: Jean Bessin.
References
[edit]- ^ "Scotto, Benedetto". thesaurus.cerl.org. Retrieved 2017-11-07.
- ^ Giornale ligustico di archeologia, storia e belle arti (in Italian). 1874. p. 335.
- ^ Marie-Christine Engels (1997). Merchants, Interlopers, Seamen and Corsairs: The "Flemish" Community in Livorno and Genoa (1615-1635). Uitgeverij Verloren. p. 108. ISBN 90-6550-570-9.
- ^ 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 (in Italian). Tipografia Gismondi. 1846. p. 128.
- ^ Les traductions de l'italien en français au XVIIe siècle (in French). Presses Paris Sorbonne. 2001. pp. 347–349. ISBN 978-88-8229-249-2.
External links
[edit]- Rivista contemporanea. Dall'unione tipografico-editrice. 1869. p. 134.
