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O livro de marinharia de André Pires

Title
O livro de marinharia de André Pires / por Luís Mendonça de Albuquerque ; introd. by Armando Cortesão.
Author
Pires, André.
Publication
Lisboa : Junta de Investigações do Ultramar, 1963.

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Additional Authors
  • Albuquerque, Luís de, 1917-
  • Anes, Pero, pilot.
  • João de Lisboa, d. 1526.
  • Gama, Vasco da, 1469-1524.
  • Portugal. Junta de Investigações do Ultramar.
  • Bibliothèque nationale (France). Manuscript. Portugais 40.
Description
232 p. : ill., facsims., map.; 29 cm.
Alternative Title
Tratado da agulha de marear.
Subject
  • Navigation > Early works to 1800
  • Nautical astronomy > Tables
  • Pilot guides > Indian Ocean > To 1800
  • Pilot guides > Red Sea > To 1800
Note
  • Introd. in English.
  • "Estudo crítico" : p. [15]-162.
  • "Bibliothèque Nat. de Paris, códice 44340 (MS. port., 40), fls. 1-37" : p. [165]-225.
  • "One [group of tables], the Regiment of the Southern Cross ... was ... prepared ... by ... Pero Anes."
  • MS. contains Pires' transcription of part of the Tratado da agulha de marear, by João de Lisboa.
  • "... [the] complete solar tables were calculated for the year 1497 and certainly utilized in the first voyage of Vasco da Gama to India."
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography : p. [227]-229.
LCCN
67057518
OCLC
  • ocm02385923
  • SCSB-480995
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library