English explorer and cartographer Robert Dudley was born #OTD in 1574.
The most important of Dudley's works was Dell'Arcano del Mare (Secrets of the Sea). It includes a comprehensive treatise on navigation and shipbuilding and it has become renowned as the first atlas of sea charts of the world. Originally published at Florence in 1646 in Italian, they represent a collection of all contemporary naval knowledge.
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