O livro de marinharia de André Pires /

Pires, André.

O livro de marinharia de André Pires / de marinharia de André Pires por Luís Mendonça de Albuquerque ; introd. by Armando Cortesão. - Lisboa : Junta de Investigações do Ultramar, 1963. - 232 p. : ill., facsims., map. ; 29 cm. - Agrupamento de Estudos de Geografia Antiga.[Série Memórias] ; 1 . - Agrupamento de Estudos de Geografia Antiga. [Série Memórias] ; 1. .

"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 bibliography: (p. [227]-229) and index.


Introd. in English.


Navigation--Early works to 1800.
Nautical astronomy--Tables.
Pilot guides--Indian Ocean--To 1800.
Pilot guides--Red Sea--To 1800.

VK551 / .P57 1963

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