Mathematician:Oronce Finé

Mathematician

French mathematician and cartographer who was mainly a populariser and teacher.

Nationality

French

History

• Born: 20 December 1494 in Briançon, France
• Died: 8 August 1555 in Paris, France

Publications

• 1524: Constructed an ivory sundial
• 1525: One of the first woodcut maps of France
• 1531: Nova Universi Orbis Descriptio
• 1532: Protomathesis (a collection of smaller works)
• 1536: An edition of Euclid's The Elements
• 1542: De mundi sphaera (On the Heavenly Spheres)
• 1556: De rebus mathematicis (of mathematical matters) in which he gave a value for $\pi$ as $3 \frac {11}{78} = 3.1410$.

Also known as

Oronce Finé is rendered in Latin as Orontius Finnaeus or Finaeus, and in Italian as Oronzio Fineo.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Oronce Finé": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive