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REGIMENTO do Estrolabio e do Quadrante: Tractado da Spera do Mundo. Lisbonne. 1924. - REGIMENTO do Estrolabio e do Quadrante: Tractado da Spera do Mundo . Reproduction Fac-similé du seul exemplaire connu appartenant à la Bibliothéque de l’État de Munich. - 2.e Édition. Lisbonne: Imprimerie Nationale, 1924. [4], 36, 64 pp.; 270 mm. Facsimile reproduction of the only known copy of the Regimento do Estrolábio e do Quadrante e do Tratado da Sphera do Mundo , preserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich. The small volume, printed in Lisbon in the early years of the 16th century, brings together the oldest printed Portuguese nautical manual, with rules for determining latitude by the altitude of the Sun and the polar star, and a Portuguese version of Sacrobosco's treatise on the sphere, the basis of the cosmography used by the pilots of the Age of Exploration. Second edition of this reproduction, published in the collection Histoire de la Science Nautique Portugaise à l'Époque des Grandes Découvertes , directed by Joaquim Bensaúde (1859-1952), who authored the introductory study. An engineer and historian of nautical science, Bensaúde dedicated a large part of his life to investigating the origins of Portuguese astronomical navigation and promoted the facsimile publication of the main sources, including Zacuto's Almanach Perpetuum and Pedro Nunes's Tratado da Sphera . This edition, printed by the Imprensa Nacional de Lisboa, reproduces the original text and includes the editor's critical introduction. Uncommon. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate