Robert Hues
English mathematician and geographer · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics · Lived 1553 to 1632 · aged 79
Robert Hues was an English mathematician and geographer. He attended St. Mary Hall at Oxford, and graduated in 1578. Hues became interested in geography and mathematics, and studied navigation at a school set up by Walter Raleigh.
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Van Dyck's portrait of Henry Percy, the 9th Earl of Northumberland, with whom Hues was associated![An engraving of Thomas Cavendish by Willem and Magdalena van de Passe from Holland's Herōologia Anglica (Praise of English Heroes, 1620),[10] titled "Thomas Candish, Armiger. Animum fortuna sequatur [The soul follows chance]". Hues circumnavigated the globe with Cavendish between 1586 and 1588.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Thomas_Cavendish.jpg/500px-Thomas_Cavendish.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
An engraving of Thomas Cavendish by Willem and Magdalena van de Passe from Holland's Herōologia Anglica (Praise of English Heroes, 1620),[10] titled "Thomas Candish, Armiger. Animum fortuna sequatur [The soul follows chance]". Hues circumnavigated the globe with Cavendish between 1586 and 1588.
A drawing of Molyneux's terrestrial globe from Tractaet ofte Handelinge van het gebruyck der Hemelscher ende Aertscher Globe, the 1623 Dutch version of Hues's Tractatus de globis
Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, the burial place of Robert Hues
The title page of the first English edition of Robert Hues's A Learned Treatise of Globes, both Cœlestiall and Terrestriall: With their Severall Uses (1638), reproduced in the Hakluyt Society's 1889 reprint
The title page of a 1623 Dutch version of Hues's Tractatus de globisAbout this person
During a trip to Newfoundland, he made observations which caused him to doubt the accepted published values for variations of the compass. Between 1586 and 1588, Hues travelled with Thomas Cavendish on a circumnavigation of the globe, performing astronomical observations and taking the latitudes of places they visited. Beginning in August 1591, Hues and Cavendish again set out on another circumnavigation of the globe. During the voyage, Hues made astronomical observations in the South Atlantic, and continued his observations of the variation of the compass at various latitudes and at the Equator. Cavendish died on the journey in 1592, and Hues returned to England the following year.
