O livro de marinharia de André Pires / por Luís Mendonça de Albuquerque ; introd. by Armando Cortesão.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pires, André.

Contributor:

Albuquerque, Luís de, 1917-1992, editor.

Anes, Pero, pilot.

João de Lisboa, -1526.

Gama, Vasco da, 1469-1524.

Portugal. Junta de Investigações do Ultramar.

Paris (France). Bibliothèque National.

Series:

Agrupamento de Estudos de Geografia Antiga. Série Memórias ; 1.

[Série Memórias] ; 1

Language:

English

Portuguese

Subjects (All):

Navigation--Early works to 1800.

Navigation.

Nautical astronomy--Tables.

Nautical astronomy.

Pilot guides.

Red Sea.

Indian Ocean.

Pilot guides--Indian Ocean--To 1800.

Pilot guides--Red Sea--To 1800.

Genre:

Tables.

Physical Description:

232 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, map. ; 29 cm.

Other Title:

Tratado da agulha de marear.

Place of Publication:

Lisboa : Junta de Investigações do Ultramar, 1963.

Notes:

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 : pages [227]-229.

Related Work:

João de Lisboa, -1526. Tratado da agulha de marear.

OCLC:

2385923