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500 Years of Pedro Nunes's Birth

2002 Event

Participation in the exhibition Pedro Nunes (1502-1578) - novas terras, novos mares e o que mays he: novo ceo e novas estrellas, organised by the Portuguese National Library, on the occasion of the 500 years over the birth of Pedro Nunes, with the creation of a Jewellery Collection inspired by the geometric forms published in O Tratado da Sphera (The Treaty of Sphera), Opera e De Crepusculis. Pedro Nunes was a Portuguese internationally recognised in the field of Mathematics and its applications to Cosmography and Nautical Sciences.
Pedro Nunes (1502-1578) - novas terras, novos mares e o que mays he: novo ceo e novas estrellas

Acknowledgements National Library of Portugal

Pedro Nunes
Exhibition poster Pedro Nunes. New lands and new seas
Shera Treaty, 1537.
Geometric scheme to illustrate the Theorica of the Sun and a silver pendant necklace.