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PIMENTEL (Manuel). Arte de Navegar de Manuel Pimentel. Lisboa. 1969. - PIMENTEL (Manuel) Arte de Navegar de Manuel Pimentel . Comentada e anotada por Armando Cortesão, Fernanda Aleixo e Luís de Albuquerque. Lisboa: Junta de Investigações do Ultramar, 1969. [8], 330 pp.: il.; 290 mm. Annotated and commented edition of Manuel Pimentel's Art of Navigation , a nautical treatise originally published in 1699 and republished in 1712, which became the official compendium for the training of pilots in the Portuguese Navy for much of the 18th century, following the tradition established by Pedro Nunes and continued by the successive chief cosmographers of the Kingdom. This volume is part of the Memoirs Series of the Ancient Cartography Studies Group of the Overseas Research Board, a collection initiated in 1963 with the publication of André Pires's Book of Seamanship and dedicated to the critical publication of the main Portuguese nautical texts. This edition is commented on and annotated by Armando Cortesão, Fernanda Aleixo, and Luís de Albuquerque. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate