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English navigator,
engineer and
geographer.
Wrote the book
'Dell'
Arcano del mare'
(3 volumes,
1646-47), which
contains all
about navigation
and shipbuilding,
know at that
time, and can
be seen as the
first sea atlas
by an Englishman.
Since 1605 he
lived in Italy
and he died
in Florence.
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