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Pedro Nunes
Sign in to saveAlso known as Peter Nonius, Peter Nunez, Nonius Salaciensis, Pedro Nuñez, Pedro Nunes, o Núñez
Portuguese mathematician (1502–1578)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1502
- Died
- 1578
- Works
- 12
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Brazil
- Active from
- 1943-08-12
- Active to
- 1983-04-02
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 12
- Total plays
- 28
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,908x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,989x
- Measurements of Ω and Λ from 42 High‐Redshift Supernovae
· 1999 · cited 15,600x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,999x
- Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,664x
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Key facts
- Born
- 1502, Alcácer do Sal , Portugal
- Died
- 11 August 1578 (aged 76), Coimbra , Portugal
- Occupations
- Mathematician , cosmographer , and professor
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Pedro Nunes ( Portuguese: [ˈpeðɾu ˈnunɨʃ]; Latin: Petrus Nonius; 1502 – 11 August 1578) was a Portuguese mathematician, cosmographer, and professor, probably from a New Christian (of Jewish origin) family.
Considered one of the greatest mathematicians of his time, Nunes is best known for being the first to approach navigation and cartography with mathematical tools. Among other accomplishments, he was the first to propose the idea of a loxodrome (a rhumb line), and was the inventor of several measuring devices, including the nonius (from which the Vernier scale was derived), named after his Latin surname.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pedro Nunes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.