Pedro Nunes

Pedro Nunes (latin, Petrus Nonius), (1502, Alcácer do Sal – August 11, 1578, Coimbra) was a Portuguese mathematician, born from a New Christian (of Jewish origin) family.

Bibliography

Pedro Nunes translated, commented and expanded some of the major works in his field, and he also published original research.

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Commented and expanded translations:

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• Tratado da sphera com a Theorica do Sol e da Lua (Treaty about the Sphere with Theory of the Sun and the Moon), (1537). From Tractatus de Sphaera by Johannes de Sacrobosco, Theoricae novae planetarum by Georg Purbach and the Geography by Claudius Ptolemaeus.

Original work:

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• Tratado em defensão da carta de marear (Treaty Defending the Sea Chart), (1537).
• Tratado sobre certas dúvidas da navegação (Treaty about some Navigation Doubts), (1537)
• De crepusculis (About the Twilight), (1542).
• De erratis Orontii Finei (About the Errors of Orontii Finei), (1546).
• Petri Nonii Salaciensis Opera, (1566). Expanded, corrected and reedited as De arte adque ratione navigandi in 1573.
• Livro de algebra en arithmetica y geometria (Book of Algebra in Arithmetics and Geometry), (1567).