Pedro de Medina
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Pedro de Medina was a Spanish cartographer and author of navigational texts. His well-known Arte de navegar was the first work published in Spain dealing exclusively with navigational techniques.
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Cross-staff in Regimento de Navegación by Pedro de Medina, 1552. A goniometric instrument used to measure the altitude of stars.
Medina's Suma de cosmographia ("Compendium of Cosmography"). The folio-size manuscript on parchment includes 11 beautiful astronomical figures with accompanying text. The illustrations are carefully drawn and illuminated in gold and in bright colors, with the initial letters of text pages in highlighted golden insets. A fine mappa mundi on a double-page spread, illuminated in red, blue, green, sienna, and gold, represents the known world and reflects the state of geographic knowledge in Spain and Portugal at that time. Prominently shown on the map is the line of demarcation, established in the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas, between the domains of Spain and Portugal.
Mappa mundi by Pedro de Medina & G.B. Pedrazano, Venice, 1554
Arte de navegar, 1554Scientists from Spain 6
About this person
Country
SpainCategory
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1493 to 1567 · aged 74
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