1553 - 1632
Robert Hues British Mathematician
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| First Name |
Robert
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| Last Name |
Hues
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1552
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| Birthplace |
Little Hereford, Herefordshire, England
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| Died |
24th May, 1632
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| Place of Death |
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
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| Nationality |
British
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| Occupation |
Mathematician
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Robert Hues (1553 – 24 May 1632) was an English mathematician and geographer. He attended St. Mary Hall at Oxford, and graduated in 1578. Hues became interested in geography and mathematics, and studied navigation at a school set up by Walter Raleigh. During a trip to Newfoundland, he made observations which caused him to doubt the accepted published values for variations of the compass. Between 1586 and 1588, Hues travelled with Thomas Cavendish on a circumnavigation of the globe, performing astronomical observations and taking the latitudes of places they visited. Beginning in August 1591, Hues and Cavendish again set out on another circumnavigation of the globe. During the voyage, Hues made astronomical observations in the South Atlantic, and continued his observations of the variation of the compass at various latitudes and at the Equator. Cavendish died on the journey in 1592, and Hues returned to England the following year.
