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
Pedro de Medina (1493 – Seville, 1567) was a Spanish cartographer and author of navigational texts. His well-known Arte de navegar ("The Art of Navigation", 1545) was the first work published in Spain dealing exclusively with navigational techniques (Martín Fernández de Enciso's Suma de Geographia, 1519, which gave ample geographical information already contained solar declination tables with explanations and the corrections for finding the latitude by measuring the height of Polaris).
PedrodeMedina (1493 – Seville, 1567) was a Spanish cartographer and author of navigational texts. His well-known Arte de navegar ("The Art of Navigation"...
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services to farmers and ranchers. The Medina River was named after PedrodeMedina, a Spanish cartographer, by Alonso de León, Spanish governor of Coahuila...
reproduced almost verbatim in the Libro of Spanish historian PedrodeMedina (1548). Medina gives the island's dimensions as 87 leagues in length and 28...
The House of Medina Sidonia (Spanish: Casa deMedina Sidonia) is a Spanish noble house originating from the crown of Castile, whose name comes from the...
and French pilots learned to navigate from the texts of PedrodeMedina, Martín Fernández de Enciso and Martín Cortés, among others. The conjunction of...
observations of Amerigo Vespucci and Andrea Corsali, as well as the report of PedrodeMedina. Uranometria contains many more stars than did any previous star atlas...
by FIDS, 1958. Named by UK-APC after PedrodeMedina (1493-1567), Spanish Cosmographer Royal, who wrote Arte de Navegar (Valladolid, 1545), an important...
1595 by Diego Perez de Messa, many years after PedrodeMedina's death), Casa de Iuan Gracian, Alcalá de Henares. PALENCIA, Alfonso de – Gesta Hispaniensia...
"theoretical or scientific navigation". In 1545, PedrodeMedina published the influential Arte de navegar. The book was translated into French, Italian...
Medinade Rioseco is a municipality located in the province of Valladolid, in the autonomous community of Castile and León and Spain. According to a 2011...
1,280 sq mi (3,315 km2) Medina County 325 Hondo 1848 Bexar County The Medina River, named for Spanish engineer PedrodeMedina 54,797 1,328 sq mi (3,440 km2)...
new edition enlarged on the basis of the 1574 Spanish edition 1581: PedrodeMedina, Art of Navigation Beecher, Donald (2006), "John Frampton of Bristol...
Antonio de Rojas and replacing him with Juan Pardo de Tavera, the Archbishop of Santiago. He also added three new councilors, Juan Manuel, PedrodeMedina, and...
Pedrode Bolduque, (c. 1550 – c. 1595) was a Spanish sculptor of Flemish origin who lived and worked mainly in Medinade Rio Seco and Cuéllar. He was born...
Manuel Medina (March 31, 1968 – February 14, 2017) was a Dominican broadcast journalist and host for the FM radio station 103.5 HICC in San Pedrode Macorís...
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