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    Pedro Nunes (Portuguese: [ˈpeðɾu ˈnunɨʃ]; Latin: Petrus Nonius; 1502 – 11 August 1578) was a Portuguese mathematician, cosmographer, and professor, probably...
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  • national team. Nunes started his career with Ericeirense, before moving to LigaPro side Estoril. During his time with the club, Nunes played mostly in...
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    tool used in navigation and astronomy named in honour of its inventor, Pedro Nunes (Latin: Petrus Nonius), a Portuguese author, mathematician and navigator...
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  • British continuity announcer Pedro Nunes (1502-1578), Portuguese mathematician, cosmographer, and professor Rachel Ann Nunes (born 1966), or Teyla Branton...
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  • Instituto Pedro Nunes (IPN) is a non-profit private organization for innovation and technology transfer based in Coimbra, Portugal. It is named after...
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  • reporter Pedro X. Molina (born 1976), Nicaraguan caricaturist Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician Pedro Páez, Spanish Jesuit missionary in Ethiopia Pedro Pascal...
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  • Pedro Nunes Tinoco (died 8 February 1641) was a Portuguese architect who worked in what George Kubler described as the 'Plain Style', and is known also...
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    ancient). Nunes credibility rests on being personally involved in the instruction of pilots and senior seafarers from 1527 onwards. Moreover, it was Nunes who...
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  • Pedro Henrique Nunes, also known as Pedro Enrique (born 22 August 1988, in São Paulo) is a Brazilian racing driver. Nunes drove in the Formula Three Sudamericana...
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    centuries include Portugal's national poet Luís de Camões, the mathematician Pedro Nunes, many statesmen, prime ministers and presidents of Portugal, and Nobel...
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    scale is called a nonius after Portuguese mathematician and cosmographer Pedro Nunes (Latin Petrus Nonius, 1502–1578). In English, this term was used until...
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    years, but in any case Mercator's friendship with Pedro Nunes and his access to the loxodromic tables Nunes created likely aided his efforts. English mathematician...
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    Indies (Portuguese) and the Spanish Main. The Portuguese mathematician Pedro Nunes published important treatises on navigation (Tratado da sphera com a...
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    Galilei Marin Getaldić Johannes Kepler Guidobaldo del Monte John Napier Pedro Nunes William Oughtred Luca Pacioli Robert Recorde Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia...
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    Detail showing Pedro Nunes holding an armillary sphere (center). To his left, Jácome de Maiorca and Pedro Escobar; to his right, Pero de Alenquer, Gil...
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    decades, studying the currents and winds of the Atlantic. The work of Pedro Nunes (1502–1578) is remembered in the navigation context for the determination...
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  • Clara Nunes Santos is a former Portuguese ambassador to Norway. She was appointed Head of Portuguese State Protocol in September 2017. Maria Clara Nunes Pinto...
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    mathematical basis of the Mercator projection by building on the works of Pedro Nunes, and set out a reference table giving the linear scale multiplication...
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  • of Pedro Nunes Velho and Maria de Baião, a remote descendant of Mendo Alão. His wife was Urraca Fernandes de Lumiares, descendant of Sancho Nunes de Barbosa...
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    chair in Coimbra until 1562, Pedro Nunes began spending extended periods in Lisbon in the late 1550s. Details of Pedro Nunes's 'navigation courses' are scanty...
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    horticulture production, vineyards and livestock raising. The Instituto Pedro Nunes (Pedro Nunes Institute), a business incubator, dynamically hosts several start-ups...
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    1895 where she was sold to the Portuguese government.: 189-192  Renamed Pedro Nunes for intended use as a naval training ship, she arrived at the Tagus River...
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    Portuguese culture and literature in the Age of Discoveries: Fernão Lopes, Pedro Nunes, Gomes Eanes de Zurara, João de Barros, Fernão Lopes de Castanheda, Vasco...
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    and naval technology, including Pedro Nunes, João de Castro, Abraham Zacuto, and Martin Behaim. Cartographers Pedro Reinel, Lopo Homem, Estêvão Gomes...
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  • 1623 fleet to India, storm 1624 Nossa Senhora da Guia - Wrecked 1624 São Pedro (G) São João 366 Cinco Chagas (C) (c. 1623) - In 1624 fleet to India Nossa...
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    appointment of Pedro Nunes as mathematics teacher, in 1537, when the Portuguese university located in Lisbon was relocated back to Coimbra, and Nunes moved to...
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    Albuquerque class of 1,780 tons and the second-rate (Gonçalo Velho and Pedro Nunes classes of 950 to 1,090 tons). In some navies the term is now used to...
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    Gutiérrez becoming the inaugural champion. Team-mates Alexander Rossi and Pedro Nunes finished fourth and 24th respectively, and ART won the teams' championship...
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  • (Portuguese: João Nunes de Prado; died 1355), illegitimate son of Infanta Blanche of Portugal and a Portuguese nobleman named Pedro Nunes Carpinteyro, was...
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    Coimbra's business incubator and technology transfer centre, Instituto Pedro Nunes (IPN). The company has other offices in Porto and Lisbon (Portugal),...
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