Hieronymo de Chaves. Chronographia o Reportorio de los tiempos.... Sevilla: Casa de Alonso Escriuano, 1572.
Chaves was a mathematician, cosmographer and poet. He held the chair of Cosmography in the Casa de la Contratación in Seville, repository for all official documents related to the Spanish possessions in America. Among Chaves' publications are a Tratado de la Sphera (1545) and maps of Seville and America.
The Chronographia is Chaves' translation of the astronomical encyclopedia of Johannes de Sacro Bosco (John of Holywood), to which Chaves added a chronological account of notable incidents from Spanish history.
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