1. Robert Hues was an English mathematician and geographer.
23 Facts About Robert Hues
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Robert Hues attended St Mary Hall at Oxford, and graduated in 1578.
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Between 1586 and 1588, Robert Hues travelled with Thomas Cavendish on a circumnavigation of the globe, performing astronomical observations and taking the latitudes of places they visited.
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Cavendish died on the journey in 1592, and Robert Hues returned to England the following year.
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In 1594, Robert Hues published his discoveries in the Latin work Tractatus de globis et eorum usu which was written to explain the use of the terrestrial and celestial globes that had been made and published by Emery Molyneux in late 1592 or early 1593, and to encourage English sailors to use practical astronomical navigation.
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Robert Hues continued to have dealings with Raleigh in the 1590s, and later became a servant of Thomas Grey, 15th Baron Grey de Wilton.
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Robert Hues tutored Northumberland's son Algernon Percy at Oxford, and subsequently Algernon's younger brother Henry.
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In later years, Robert Hues lived in Oxford where he was a fellow of the University, and discussed mathematics and related subjects with like-minded friends.
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Robert Hues was born in 1553 at Little Hereford in Herefordshire, England.
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Robert Hues later gave advice to the dramatist and poet George Chapman for his 1616 English translation of Homer, and Chapman referred to him as his "learned and valuable friend".
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Robert Hues was a friend of the geographer Richard Hakluyt, who was then regent master of Christ Church.
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Robert Hues perhaps become acquainted with the sailor Thomas Cavendish at this time, as both of them were taught by Harriot at Raleigh's school of navigation.
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Robert Hues was plagued by mutinous crewmen, and by natives and Portuguese who attacked his sailors seeking food and water on shore.
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Robert Hues returned to England after Cavendish died, and published his discoveries in the work Tractatus de globis et eorum usu, which he dedicated to Raleigh.
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Tractatus de globis begins with a letter by Robert Hues dedicated to Raleigh that recalled geographical discoveries made by Englishmen during Elizabeth I's reign.
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Part 4, which Robert Hues considered the most important part of the work, explained how the globes enabled seamen to determine the sun's position, latitude, course and distance, amplitudes and azimuths, and time and declination.
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Robert Hues later became a servant of Thomas Grey, the 15th and last Baron Grey de Wilton.
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Grey was given consent for Robert Hues to stay in the Tower with him.
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Robert Hues sometimes met Walter Warner in London, and they are known to have discussed the reflection of bodies.
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In later years, Robert Hues lived in Oxford where he discussed mathematics and allied subjects with like-minded friends.
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Robert Hues was required to help price Harriot's books and other possessions for sale to the Bodleian Library.
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Robert Hues was buried in Christ Church Cathedral, and a monumental brass to him was placed in Christ Church with the following inscription:.
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Robert Hues was most closely associated with Thomas Cavendish, in whose company he explored the world by sail; then with Lord Baron Gray, for whom he came as consoler in the Tower of London.