Pedro De Medina

Tempat: Seville

Yg dibawa lahir: 1493

Kematian: 1567

Biografi:

Pedro de Medina was a Spanish cartographer and author of navigational texts. He was born in Seville, Spain in 1493 and died there in 1567. His well-known Arte de navegar ('The Art of Navigation', 1545) was the first work published in Spain dealing exclusively with navigational techniques. It was the first work to contain solar declination tables with explanations and the corrections for finding the latitude by measuring the height of Polaris.