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    Pedro Reinel (fl. 1485 – 1540) was a Portuguese cartographer. Between 1485 and 1519 Reinel served three Portuguese kings: João II, Manuel I and João III...
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  • cartographer Pedro Reinel Pedro Reinel (c. 1462–c. 1542), Portuguese cartographer, author of one of the oldest signed Portuguese nautical charts "Reinel". Forebears...
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    An older (medieval) convention is the manicule (pointing hand, 👈). Pedro Reinel in c. 1504 first used the fleur-de-lis as indicating north in a compass...
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  • Jorge Reinel (c. 1502 – after 1572) born in Lisbon was a Portuguese cartographer and instructor in cartography, son of the well-known cartographer Pedro Reinel...
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  • Pont (Scotland, 1565–1614) Pedro Reinel (Portugal ?–c. 1542), author of the oldest signed Portuguese nautical chart Jorge Reinel (Portugal c. 1502–c. 1572)...
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  • cartographer Pedro Reinel made the oldest known nautical chart with a scale of latitudes. 1519 : Portuguese cartographers Lopo Homem, Pedro Reinel and Jorge...
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    north mark. The use of the fleur-de-lis as north mark was introduced by Pedro Reinel, and quickly became customary in compass roses (and is still often used...
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    charts. It is a joint work of the cartographers Lopo Homem, Pedro Reinel and Jorge Reinel, and illustrated by miniaturist António de Holanda. The regions...
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    and naval technology, including Pedro Nunes, João de Castro, Abraham Zacuto, and Martin Behaim. Cartographers Pedro Reinel, Lopo Homem, Estêvão Gomes, and...
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    Portolan made by Pedro Reinel in 1485 representing the Western Europe and parts of Africa, reflecting the explorations made by Diogo Cão. Reinel was also author...
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    earliest record of the location appears as São João on a Portuguese map by Pedro Reinel in 1519. When the English mariner John Rut visited St. John's in 1527...
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    1501, and shortly after that date Funk Island appears on two maps by Pedro Reinel as Y Dos Saues (1504) and Ylhas das aves (1520), both of which refer...
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    (1459) and the maps of Henricus Martellus Germanus (1484, 1489) and Pedro Reinel (c. 1485). With a few exceptions (e.g. Ruysch), Antillia disappears from...
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    Gonneville (France) sights islands that may have been the Falklands. 1522: Pedro Reinel (Portugal) Unrecorded Portuguese expedition may have sighted the Falkland...
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    Miller Atlas, dated 1519, which is thought to be a joint work with Pedro Reinel, Reinel's son Jorge, and António de Holanda. There is, however, some disagreement...
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  • literature – Bergadis' Apokopos; Miller Atlas by Lopo Homem, Pedro Reinel and Jorge Reinel; The Abbreviacion of Statutis by John Rastell 1520 in literature...
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    Portolan made by Pedro Reinel in 1485 representing the Western Europe and parts of Africa, reflecting the explorations made by Diogo Cão. Reinel was also author...
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  • Portolan made by Pedro Reinel in 1485 representing Western Europe and parts of Africa, reflecting the explorations made by Diogo Cão. Reinel was also author...
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    Portuguese Empire, by Lazaro Luis The 1504 map of North Africa and Europe, by Pedro Reinel The 1583 map of global European empires, by Sebastião Lopes In Portugal...
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  • earliest record of the location appears as São João on a Portuguese map by Pedro Reinel. 1527 – When John Rut visited St. John's in 1526 he found Norman, Breton...
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  • (1991) João das Regras, jurist (1927; 1949) José Régio, writer (2001) Pedro Reinel, cartographer (1985) José Relvas, politician (2008) Aquilino Ribeiro...
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  • the first literary work created in the New World. Lopo Homem, Pedro Reinel and Jorge Reinel (illustrated by António de Holanda) – "Miller Atlas" William...
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    Duarte Barbosa, Estêvão Gomes, João Serrão, Ferdinand Magellan and Jorge Reinel, cosmographers Francisco and Ruy Faleiro and the Flemish merchant Christopher...
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    not survive. The oldest signed Portuguese nautical chart, created by Pedro Reinel, dates back to 1485. Within the first fleets that were sent into the...
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  • timepiece, the first "Nuremberg Eg". Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician (died 1578) approx. date – Jorge Reinel, Portuguese cartographer (d. after 1572)...
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    of Mandinka origin He was seized by the Portuguese slave trader, Pedro Gomes Reinel, sold to businessman Juan Palacios, and later, after transportation...
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    Seen as claimed in the Cantino planisphere of 1502, Reinel-Lopo Homem chart of 1519 and Reinel map of 1535. Land of the Corte-Real: (1501–?) claimed...
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  • a number of events, some of which are listed below. probable date – Pedro Reinel's Atlantic chart is the earliest known nautical chart with a scale of...
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    Prime Minister Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Minister Óscar Maúrtua Preceded by Javier Gonzales Terrones Succeeded by Gonzalo Gutiérrez Reinel Member of Congress...
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  • later Turkish Armed Forces. Francisco Nunez Olivera (1904–2018) – Spain. Reinel Cianca Gutiérrez (1901–2002) – Panama. Altino Gomes da Silva (1904–1996) –...
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