Benedetto Scotto
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Benedetto Scotto (15th century – 16th century) was an Italian cartographer, mathematician and navigator.[1]
Scotto was born in Genoa. He published a treatise in which he proposed to reach the Indies through a crossing to the North in the Arctic Sea.[2][3]
His works on squaring the circle (1622) and on longitude (1623)[4] were also published in French.[5]
