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BRUNO (Mestre Cristóvão). ARTE DE NAVEGAR (1628). Lisboa. 1940. - BRUNO (Mestre Cristóvão) ARTE DE NAVEGAR (1628) . pelo Padre Mestre Cristóvão Bruno / Prefácio por A. Fontoura da Costa. Lisboa: Agência Geral das Colónias, 1940. X, 148, [2] pp.: il.: 230 mm. Edition of the Art of Navigation from 1628, with a preface by A. Fontoura da Costa. The treatise belongs to the tradition of Portuguese nautical literature of the 16th and 17th centuries, expounding the methods and instruments of astronomical navigation then in use in the fleets and armadas of the State of India and Brazil. This edition, prefaced by Fontoura da Costa, a leading historian of Portuguese navigation, has made accessible to researchers a text that was otherwise difficult to find. Highly regarded. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate