Mathematician:Oronce Finé

Mathematician
French mathematician and cartographer who was mainly a populariser and teacher.

Nationality
French

History

 * Born: 20 December 1494 in Briançon, France
 * Died: 8 August 1555 in Paris, France

Publications

 * 1524: Constructed an ivory sundial
 * 1525: One of the first woodcut maps of France
 * 1531: Nova Universi Orbis Descriptio
 * 1532: Protomathesis (a collection of smaller works)
 * 1536: An edition of
 * 1542: De mundi sphaera (On the Heavenly Spheres)
 * 1556: De rebus mathematicis (of mathematical matters) in which he gave a value for $\pi$ as $3 \frac {11}{78} = 3.1410$.

Also known as
Oronce Finé is rendered in Latin as Orontius Finnaeus or Finaeus, and in Italian as Oronzio Fineo.