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LISBOA (João de). LIVRO de Marinharia: Tratado da Agulha de Marear de João de Lisboa. Lisboa. 1903. - LISBOA (João de) LIVRO de Marinharia: Tratado da Agulha de Marear de João de Lisboa . Roteiros, sondas e outros conhecimentos relativos à navegação. Copiado e coordenado por Jacinto Ignacio de Brito Rebelo. Lisboa: Imprensa de Libanio da Silva, 1903. LXXXII, 310 pp.: il.; 265 mm. First critical edition of the Book of Seamanship , a compilation of 16th-century nautical texts traditionally attributed to the pilot João de Lisboa, who repeatedly sailed the India route in the early 16th century. The manuscript, originating from the library of the Dukes of Cadaval and rediscovered in 1831, would later become part of the collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. It brings together the Treatise on the Compass of 1514, sailing directions, soundings, solar declination tables, and other practical knowledge essential to ocean navigation of the time, constituting one of the first known sources to describe systematic methods for determining the magnetic declination of the compass, by aiming at the North Star or the Southern Cross at the moment of its culmination. The edition, prepared by Jacinto Inácio de Brito Rebelo (1830-1920), established the text as a fundamental testimony of Portuguese nautical science and remains, more than a century later, an indispensable reference work for studies of the history of navigation and sixteenth-century cosmography. Estimated. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate