Alumni of St Mary Hall, Oxford - Robert Hues, Brajendranath de, Thomas Harriot, Christopher Hatton, Thomas Elyot, Edward Craggs-Eliot (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Robert Hues, Brajendranath De, Thomas Harriot, Christopher Hatton, Thomas Elyot, Edward Craggs-Eliot, 1st Baron Eliot, Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, Theodore Hook, William Beresford, James Hannington, James Pound, Robert Fellowes, George Sandys, William Rider, Robert Parsons, John Falconer, Nathanael Carpenter, James Douglas-Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton, Daniel Lysons, Augustine Scriven, Sir William Brownlow, 1st Baronet, Ernest Graham Ingham, John Ball, Oliver Lloyd, Henry Ferne, James Hurdis, Joseph Bowles. Excerpt: 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 traveled 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. In 1594, Hues published his discoveries in the Latin work Tractatus de globis et eorum usu (Treatise on Globes and Their Use) which was written to explain the use of the terrestrial and celestial globes that had been made and published by Emery Molyneux in late 1592 or early 1593, and to encourage English sailors to use practical astronomical navigation. Hues' work subsequently wen...