# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/josef-de-mendoza-y-rios
# Generated: 2026-08-15T15:37:28.549Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/josef-de-mendoza-y-rios"
name: "Josef de Mendoza y Ríos"
slug: "josef-de-mendoza-y-rios"
description: "Josef de Mendoza y Ríos (1761–1816) was a Spanish astronomer and mathematician of the 18th century, famous for his work on navigation.\nThe first work of Mendoza y Ríos was published in 1787: his treatise about the science and technique of navigation in two tomes. He also published several tables for facilitating the calculations of nautical astronomy and useful in navigation to calculate the latitude of a ship at sea from two altitudes of the sun, and the longitude from the distances of the moon from a celestial body."
tagline: "Spanish astronomer and mathematician (1761–1816)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Retrato_de_Jos%C3%A9_Mendoza_y_R%C3%ADos_(1763-1816)%2C_capit%C3%A1n_de_nav%C3%ADo_de_la_Real_Armada_-_An%C3%B3nimo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1761-01-29"
deathDate: "1816-03-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.46
  momentum:             1.046511627906977
  historical:           4.80342
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "جوسيف دي مندوزا إي ريوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_de_Mendoza_y_R%C3%ADos"
    title: "José de Mendoza y Ríos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Josef de Mendoza y Ríos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_de_Mendoza_y_R%C3%ADos"
    title: "José de Mendoza y Ríos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_de_Mendoza_y_R%C3%ADos"
    title: "Josef de Mendoza y Ríos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3823638"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump