About Rodrigo Zamorano
Lived 1542 – 1620 (aged 77–78). Rodrigo Zamorano was a Spanish cartographer, mathematician, historian of mathematics, pilot major, university teacher and geographer.
Rodrigo Zamorano (1542–1620) was a cosmographer of the royal house of Philip II of Spain.
Zamorano was born in Valladolid. He was author of several books on navigation, astronomy, calendars and mathematics. He was, at one time, placed in charge of the Casa de Contratación.
In 1576, he translated Euclid's Elements into Spanish. He died in Seville.
The mathematician Edward Wright incorporated a translation of Zamorano's Compendio de la Arte de Navegar into his own work, Certaine Errors in Navigation, in 1599.
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cartographer
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Rodrigo Zamorano was born in 1542 in Valladolid, Medina de Rioseco.
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Rodrigo Zamorano died in 1620 in Seville.
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Rodrigo Zamorano was a cartographer, mathematician, historian of mathematics, pilot major, university teacher and geographer.
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Rodrigo Zamorano was Spanish.
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