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MEDINA (Pedro de). REGIMIENTO de Navegación. Madrid. 1964. - MEDINA (Pedro de) REGIMIENTO de Navegación . Compuesto por el maestro Pedro de Medina. Ahora nuevamente publicado por el Instituto de España en Edición Facsímile. Madrid: Instituto de España, 1964. 2 v.; 255 mm. Two-volume edition: facsimile and transcription. Pedro de Medina (Seville, 1493 - 1567), royal cosmographer in the service of the Crown of Castile, was tutor at the ducal house of Medina Sidonia, where he had access to a rich library of scientific works. Author of the Libro de Cosmografía (1538) - which earned him a pilot's license -, the Arte de Navegar (1545) and the Libro de las Grandezas y Cosas Memorables de España (1548), he was one of the central figures of 16th-century Spanish cosmography. The Regimiento de Navegación is the revised and expanded version, published in Seville in 1563, of the practical compendium that Medina extracted from his Arte de Navegar in 1552, containing the essential rules that pilots should know and twenty new warnings about the dangers of navigation. Intended for sailors at sea, it was widely disseminated and translated into several languages, becoming one of the most influential nautical manuals of its time. This edition reproduces in facsimile the original 1563 copy, accompanied by a complete transcription of the text. (Estimated.) ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate