Pedro De Medina

Place: Seville

Born: 1493

Death: 1567

Biography:

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.