About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 55. Chapters: Henry IV of France, Prospero Alpini, Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia, Robert Balfour, Robert Hues, John Chamberlain, Eleonora di Garzia di Toledo, Margaret of Valois, Mozes Szekely, John Croke, John Florio, Pierre de Lancre, Louise of Lorraine, Jacques Auguste de Thou, Thomas Muffet, Anne West, Lady De La Warr, Robert Seton, 1st Earl of Winton, Ralph Brooke, Sir John Wynn, 1st Baronet, Patriarch Filaret, Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, Abraham Hartwell, Richard Holtby, Walter Cope, Marie of Cleves, Princess of Conde, Abraham Yagel, Roger Wilbraham, Hori Hidemasa, Cherubino Alberti, Archduke Ernest of Austria, James Elphinstone, 1st Lord Balmerino, Henry Lok, Johannes Eccard, kubo Tadachika, Vitsentzos Kornaros, Balthazar Alvarez, Nicolo Contarini, Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi, John Lowe, Ralph Ravens, Edward Forsett, Shiroishi Munezane, Giles Thomson, M ri Terumoto, Ralph Hutchinson, Miko aj Zebrzydowski, Gortzius Geldorp, Amago Katsuhisa, Jeronimo de Ayanz y Beaumont, Senoue Nobuyasu, Francisco de Mora, Pere Blai, John Stourton, 9th Baron Stourton, Mark Kerr, 1st Earl of Lothian, Jeong Bal, Miko aj Wolski, Hirate Hirohide, George Rivers, Maria of Nassau, Li Rubai, Kokubu Morishige. 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 circumnav...
