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Benedetto Scotto

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). 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.

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