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CASTRO (D. João de). ROTEIRO DE LISBOA A GOA. Lisboa. 1882. - CASTRO (D. João de) ROTEIRO DE LISBOA A GOA . Annotado por João de Andrade Corvo. Lisboa: Typographia da Academia Real das Sciencias, 1882. XVI, 428 pp., XVI est.: il.; 220 mm. First edition of this remarkable work of Portuguese nautical science from the 16th century. D. João de Castro (1500-1548), one of the most notable navigators and scientists of the Portuguese expansion, would become the fourth viceroy of India (1545-1548). He left behind four sailing directions, appreciated for the rigor of their astronomical and hydrographic observations and, above all, for their pioneering study of magnetic declination. This is the first of these sailing directions, written during the outward voyage to the East in 1538, in the company of the viceroy D. Garcia de Noronha, commanding the ship Gripho . Annotated with great rigor by João de Andrade Corvo, statesman, diplomat and naturalist, full member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, this edition also includes a study on the magnetic declinations recorded in this and other Portuguese sailing directions from the 16th century. Illustrated separately with fold-out maps. A valuable document for the history of Portuguese seamanship and discoveries. Rare and sought after. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate