O livro de marinharia de André Pires
By: por Luís Mendonça de Albuquerque ; introd. by Armando Cortesão.
Contributors: Albuquerque, Luís de, 1917- ed.; Anes, Pero, pilot.; João de Lisboa, d. 1526.; Gama, Vasco da, 1469-1524.; Portugal. Junta de Investigações do Ultramar.; Bibliothèque nationale (France).
Publisher: Junta de Investigações do Ultramar
Published: 1963
Place of publication: Lisboa
Language: por
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Navigation -- Early works to 1800.; Nautical astronomy -- Tables.; Pilot guides -- Indian Ocean -- To 1800.; Pilot guides -- Red Sea -- To 1800.
Other titles: Tratado da agulha de marear.
Notes: Bibliography : p. [227]-229.
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.