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PIMENTEL (Manuel)
ARTE de Navegar. Em que se ensinão as Regras Praticas, e os modos de cartear, e de graduar a Balestilha por via de numeros, e muitos problemas uteis à navegação, e Roteiro das Viagens, e Costa Maritimas de Guiné, Angola, Brazil, Indias, e Ilhas Ocidentais, e Orientaes. Novamente emendado, e accrescentadas muitas derrotas […]. Lisboa: Na Typographia de Antonio Rodrigues Galhardo, 1819.
[12], 610 pp. 21 gravs.; 295 mm.
One of the last editions of this important itinerary of maritime voyages. Illustrated with 21 engravings, the first three relating to navigation instruments, the following with maps, including Puerto Rico, B. Honda, Havana, P. Bello, S. Juan de Ulua, B. de Matanças, Cabo da Boa Esperança, Lourenço Marques, Bía da Formosa, Zanzibar, Ascension Island, A Coruña, Cadiz Island, etc. We know little about Manuel Pimentel. Son of Luís Serrão Pimentel, head cosmographer of the Kingdom, he studied at Colégio de Santo Antão in Lisbon where he attended the lessons of the ‘Aula das Esferas’ that had been taught at that school since the end of the s. XVI. He then went to the University of Coimbra where he studied Law, following the tradition of, as a second son, following the path of law or religious life. However, his brother Francisco Pimentel only wanted to dedicate himself to teaching and ended up being appointed major cosmographer in 1679. In 1681 he completed and published a work that his father had left incomplete — Arte Prática de Navegar e Regiment de Pilotos — and, in 1699, based on this first work of his father, publishes his ‘Arte de Navigation’ for the first time. The work, although it did not have any innovation, was considered to be of great rigor and went through several editions during the s. XVIII. Divided into two parts, the first on the ‘Necessary Principles for a better Navigation Intelligence’ and the second on ‘teaching the rules of Navigation’, it has at the end a “Roadmap of the Azores Islands, and Cape Verde, Guinea, Angola, Brazil, West and East Indies, Spanish Coast and Mediterranean Sea”. Rare, even in this 19th century edition which is added with some notes by Mateus Valente do Couto.
¶ Barbosa Machado, 3, p. 338; Inocêncio, v.6, p. 83; Dicionário Hist. Portugal, v. 5, p. 80
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