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O livro de marinharia de André Pires
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- Creator
- por Luís Mendonça de Albuquerque ; introd. by Armando Cortesão
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- Languages
- Portuguese, English
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- Lisboa : Junta de Investigações do Ultramar, 1963
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- 232 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, map. ; 29 cm
- OCLC
- ocm02385923
- 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.