Portuguese printed rutters (17th–18th centuries)
Curated by Luana Giurgevich
In a context where knowledge was reported mostly by word of mouth, the action of writing itself assumes significant meaning. Over the years, the pilots’ routine task of remembering oceanic routes became a well–defined textual genre. The majority of these documents remained unpublished until the 19 century, but there is an important number of them which started to be printed in Europe for a larger audience from the 16 century. In this section, we gather all Portuguese editions of nautical rutters.
These digitized archival sources are a complementary resource of a recently published technical note. See RUTTER Technical Notes Series no. 1
SIMÃO
DE OLIVEIRA
Arte de navegar (1606)
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MANUEL
DE FIGUEIREDO
Hydrographia (1608)
Not yet available online
MANUEL
DE FIGUEIREDO
Roteiro e navegação das Indias Occidentais, Ilhas, Antilhas do Mar Oceano Occidental... (1609)
Source Archive.org / Original from John Carter Brown Library
MANUEL
DE FIGUEIREDO
Hydrographia, exame de pilotos... (1614)
Source Google Books
MANUEL
DE FIGUEIREDO
Hydrographia, exame de pilotos... (1625)
Source Google Books
MANUEL
DE FIGUEIREDO
Hydrographia, exame de pilotos... (1632)
Not yet available online
GASPAR FERREIRA REIMÃO
Roteiro da navegaçam e carreira da India, com seus caminhos, & derrotas, sinaes, & aguageis, & differenças da agulha...
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ANTÓNIO DE MARIZ CARNEIRO
Regimento de pilotos, e roteiro das navegaçoens da India Oriental... (1642)
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ANTÓNIO DE MARIZ CARNEIRO
Regimento de pilotos, e roteiro da navegaçam, e conquistas do Brazil, Angola, S. Thome, Cabo Verde, Maranhaõ, Ilhas & Indias... (16422)
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ANTÓNIO DE MARIZ CARNEIRO
Regimento de pilotos, e roteiro da navegaçam, e conquistas do Brazil, Angola, S. Thome, Cabo Verde, Maranhaõ, Ilhas & Indias... (1655)
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ANTÓNIO DE MARIZ CARNEIRO
Roteiro da India Oriental (1666)
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LUÍS SERRÃO PIMENTEL
Roteiro do Mar Mediterraneo... (1675)
Not yet available online
LUÍS SERRÃO PIMENTEL
Arte pratica de navegar e regimento de pilotos (1681)
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MANUEL
PIMENTEL
Arte pratica de navegar: & Roteiro (1699)
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MANUEL
PIMENTEL
Arte de navegar, em que se ensinam as regras praticas (1712)
Source Archive.org / Original from John Carter Brown Library
MANUEL
PIMENTEL
Arte de navegar, em que se ensinam as regras praticas (1746)
Source Archive.org / Original from John Carter Brown Library
MANUEL
PIMENTEL
Arte de navegar, em que se ensinão as regras praticas (1762)
Source Archive.org / Original from John Carter Brown Library
JACINTO JOSÉ PAGANINO
Roteiro do Neptuno Oriental para uso das cartas (1783)
Not yet available online
JACINTO JOSÉ PAGANINO
Roteiro do Neptuno Oriental para a Navegação da China (1783)
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JACINTO JOSÉ PAGANINO
Roteiro oriental para a navegação das costas do Grande Oceano (1783)
Not yet available online
JACINTO JOSÉ PAGANINO
Roteiro occidental para a navegação da costa e portos do Brasil (1784)
Not yet available online
Jan Huygen van Linschoten
(1563–1611)
«Soufrir pour parvenir»
Fig. Hand coloured printed portrait of the Author featured in the editio princeps of his Itinerario published in 1596.
Jan Huygen van Linschoten’s Itinerario
Editions & translations (1596–1668)
Curated by Nuno Vila–Santa
Linschoten’s Itinerario fascinated European readers of his times and continues to provide a wealth of details about Portuguese sea routes and trade to India. The book quickly turned into several editions (around 30) and became a 17th–century best–seller of maritime literature. Sailors used it as a navigation manual and this is the reason why it was shipped on board Dutch, English and French vessels.
First Edition–Dutch
Itinerario
(Amsterdam: 1596)
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English Edition
Iohn Huighen van Linschoten his Discours of voyages
(London: 1598)
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German Edition
Ander Theil der Orientalischen Indien
(1598)
Source Archive.org / Digitizing Sponsor John Carter Brown Library
Latin Edition
Nauigatio ac itinerarium (1599)
Source Archive.org / Digitizing Sponsor University of Padova–Library of the Botanical Garden
Latin Edition
II. Pars Indiae Orientalis
(Frankfurt: 1599)
Source Archive.org / Digitizing Sponsor John Carter Brown Library
German Edition
Dritter Theil Indiae Orientalis
(Frankfurt: 1599)
Source Archive.org / Digitizing Sponsor John Carter Brown Library
German Edition
Vierder Theil der Orientalischen (1600)
Source Google Books / Original from Bayerische StaatsBibliothek
Latin Edition
Pars quarta Indiae Orientalis
(1601)
Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Dutch Edition
(1604)
Not yet available online
Dutch Edition
Reys–gheschrift
(1604)
Not yet available online
French Edition
Histoire de la navigation
(1610)
Digitized by BnF–Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque Nationale de France
First Latin Edition of Part X.
Indiae Orientalis pars X.
(Frankfurt: 1613)
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German Edition
Ander Theil der Orientalischen Indien (Frankfurt: 1613)
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Dutch Edition
Itinerarium
(Amsterdam: 1614)
Digitized by Radboud University–University Library (Nijmegen)
Dutch Edition
Reys–gheschrift
(1614)
Not yet available online
German Edition
Dritter Theil Indiae Orientalis (1616)
Source Archive.org / Digitizing Sponsor John Carter Brown Library
German Edition
Vierder Theil der Orie[n]talischen Indien
(1617)
Not yet available online
French Edition
Histoire de la nauigation
(1619)
Source Archive.org / Digitizing Sponsor University of Padova–Library of the Botanical Garden
French Edition
Description de l'Amerique
(1619)
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French Edition
Le grand routier de mer (1619)
Digitized by MANIOC–Bibliothèque Numérique Caraïbe Amazonie Plateau des Guyanes
Dutch Edition
Itinerarium
(1623)
Not yet available online
Dutch Edition
Reys–gheschrift van de navigatien der Portugaloysers in Orienten
(1623)
Not yet available online
Latin Edition
II. Pars Indiae Orientalis
(1628)
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Latin Edition
Tertia pars Indiae Orientalis (1629)
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French Edition
Histoire de la navigation (1638)
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French Edition
Description de l'Amérique
(1638)
Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque Nationale de France
French Edition
Le Grand routier de mer (1638)
Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Dutch Edition
Itinerarium
(Amsterdam: 1644)
Source Google Books / Original from Bibliothèque Municipal de Lyon
Dutch Edition
Reys–Gheschrift (Amsterdam: 1644)
Source Google Books / Original from National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek)
Dutch Edition
Edition by Gillis Joosten Saeghman of Amsterdam
(1668)
Not yet available online
Jesuit travel reports
«Nous établîmes des conférences où l’on apprenoit les élemens d’Euclide, la Geometrie, la navigation, et quelque chose même des fortifications. Ainsi que dans tous nos Vaisseaux nous tachâmes de charmer l’ennuy d’une longue navigation, et encore plus d’en bannir l’oisiveté, qui est la source de tous les desordres. Reprenons le cours de nôtre voyage.»
Père Tachard, Second voyage du père Tachard au Royaume de Siam (1689)
Fig. Printed map from Observations physiques et mathematiques pour servir a l’histoire naturelle & à la perfection de l’astronomie & de la geographie: envoyées des Indes et de la Chine à l’Academie Royale des Sciences à Paris par les Perés Jesuites... A Paris: de l’Imprimerie Royale, 1692, pp. 72–73.
Jesuit travel reports concerning oceanic sailing
Curated by David Salomoni
This selection contains texts related to oceanic voyages made by members of religious orders, mainly Jesuits but also Franciscans and secular priests. Serial publications such as notices and annual reports (Notizie, Relazioni) from the missions have been excluded. Diaries and single reports of voyages which are not part of regular series have been included. These works contain information of scientific or devotional kind concerning the oceanic travel experience of religious people.
These digitized archival sources are a complementary resource of a recently published technical note.
Epistolae Indicae De Stupendis Et Praeclaris Rebus...
Lovanii: apud Rutgerum Velpium, 1566.
Source/Original from Bayerische StaatsBibliothek Digital
Alguns capitulos tirados das cartas que vieram este anno de 1588...
Lisboa: per Antonio Ribeyro, 1588.
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PEDRO MARTÍNEZ
Raguaglio D’vn Notabilissimo Naufragio...
In Venetia: appresso i Gioliti, 1588.
Digitized by Google / Original from Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma
Cartas qve os padres e irmãos da Companhia de Iesus escreuerão dos Reynos de Iapão & China...
Em Euora: por Manoel de Lyra, 1598.
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LUIS DE GUZMÁN (SJ)
Historia de las Misiones que han hecho los religiosos de la Compañia de Jesus, en la India Oriental...
En Alcalá: por la Biuda de Iuan Gracián, 1601.
Digitized by Google / Original from Biblioteca de Catalunya
PEDRO CHIRINO (SJ)
Relacion de las Islas Filipinas...
En Roma: por Estevan Paulino, 1604.
Digitized by Google / Original from Universidad Complutense Madrid
GEORGES FOURNIER (SJ)
Hydrographie contenant la theorie et la practique de toutes les parties de la navigation.
Paris: Chez Michel Solys, 1643.
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LORENZO ORTIZ (SJ)
El Principe del Mar San Francisco Xavier de la Compañia de Jesus...
En Cadiz: en la Imprenta del Colegio de la Compañia de Jesus, 1688.
Digitized by Google / Original from Biblioteca Universidad Complutense Madrid
GUY TACHARD (SJ)
Second voyage du père Tachard et des Jesuites envoyez par le Roy au royaume du Syam contenant diverses remarques d’histoire, de physique, de geographie, & d’astronomie.
A Paris: Chez Daniel Horthemels, 1689.
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GIROLAMO MEROLLA (OFM)
Breve e succinta relatione del viaggio nel regno di Congo nell’Africa meridionale.
In Napoli: per Francesco Mollo, 1692.
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Observations physiques et mathematiques pour servir a l’histoire naturelle & à la perfection de l’astronomie & de la geographie: envoyées des Indes et de la Chine à l’Academie Royale des Sciences à Paris par les Perés Jesuites...
A Paris: de l’Imprimerie Royale, 1692.
Digitized by Google / Original from Biblioteca Universidad Complutense Madrid
BALTHAZAR TELLES
The Travels of the Jesuits in Ethiopia.
London: Printed for J. Knapton, 1710.
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The Travels of Several Learned Missioners of the Society of Jesus into Diverse Parts of the Archipelago India, China, and America.
London: Printed for R. Gosling, 1714.
Digitized by Google / Original from University of Michigan Library
ÉTIENNE SOUCIET (SJ)
Observations mathématiques, astronomiques, géographiques, chronologiques et physiques...
Paris: Rollin, 1729.
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The National Library of the Netherlands
ÉTIENNE SOUCIET (SJ)
Observations mathématiques, astronomiques, géographiques, chronologiques et physiques...
Tome II.
Paris: Rollin, 1732.
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ÉTIENNE SOUCIET (SJ)
Observations mathématiques, astronomiques, géographiques, chronologiques et physiques...
Tome III.
Paris: Rollin, 1732.
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PIERRE DE CHARLEVOIX (SJ)
Histoire et description generale de la Nouvelle France avec le Journal Historique d’un voyage fait par ordre du Roi dans l’Amérique Septentrionale...
Tome II.
Paris: chez Pierre François Giffart, 1744..
Digitized by Internet Archive / Original from University of Alberta / Available on HathiTrust Digital Library
FRANCISCO DE SOTO Y MARNE (OFM)
Copia de la relacion y Diario Critico–Nautico de el viage que desde la ciudad de Cadiz à la de Cartagena de Indias...
Madrid: En la Imprenta de Musica de D. Eugenio Bieco, 1753.
Digitized by Google / Original from Biblioteca Universidad Complutense Madrid
CARLO ORAZI
Brevissima notizia o relazione di vari viaggi, fatiche e patimenti, opere, del reverendo padre Carlo Horatii da Castorano
In Livorno: Per gli Eredi Santini, 1759.
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Unknown library
JOHN LOCKMAN
Travels of the Jesuits into Various Parts of the World Particularly China and the East–Indies.
Vol. II.
London: Printed for T. Piety, 1762.
Source Archive.org / Google
Original from Oxford University
Martín Fernández de Enciso
Suma de geographía que trata de todas las partidas del Mundo, em especial de las Indias. Y trata largamente del arte de marear (Sevilla: Jacobo Cronberger, 1519).
In the colophon to the Suma, Enciso indicates all his sources and among them included «the experience of our times, which is the mother of all things».
«Fenece la Suma de geographia con la espera en romance y el regimiento del sol y del norte por donde los mareantes se pueden regir y governar en el marear. Assi mesmo va puesta la cosmographia por derrotas y alturas: por donde los pilotos sabran de oy en adelante muy mejor que falta aqui pra descobrir las tierras que ouieren de descobrir, fue sacada esta suma de muchos y auctenticos autores. Conviene a saber dela historia batriana, los dos Tholomeos, Erastotenes, Plinio, Strabon, Josepho, y la experiencia de nuestros tiempos que es madre de todas las cosas. Fue impressa en la nobilissima y muy leal ciudad de Sevilla por Jacobo Cronberger aleman en el año de la encarnacion de nuestro senor. de mil y quinientos y diez y nueue.»
Fig. From Enciso’s Suma (1519), p. 38.
Iberian nautical knowledge
Portuguese and Spanish Editions (16th–18th centuries)
Curated by Luana Giurgevich
This section includes a fundamental corpus of nautical knowledge (manuals, regiments, arts of navigation and treatises). All the editions of the famous Medina’s Arte de navegar constitute an independent section of this site.
MARTÍN FERNÁNDEZ
DE ENCISO
Suma de geographía que trata de todas las partidas del Mundo, em especial de las Indias. Y trata largamente del arte de marear (1519)
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FRANCISCO FALERO
Tratado del esphera y del arte del marear (Sevilla: Juan Cronberger, 1535)
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PEDRO DE MEDINA
Arte de navegar (1545)
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DIOGO DE SÁ
De Navigatione (1549)
Source Google Books / Original from BSB
MARTÍN CORTÉS
Breue compendio de la sphera y de la arte de nauegar (1551)
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MARTÍN CORTÉS
Breue compendio de la sphera y de la arte de nauegar (1556)
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RODRIGO ZAMORANO
Compendio de la arte de nauegar (1581)
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PEDRO DE MEDINA
Regimie[n]to de nauegacio[n] (en las casas de Simon Carpintero...: 1563)
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ANDRÉS MUÑOZ
Instruycion y Regimiento para que los Marineros sepa[n] vsar del Artilleria (s.l.: s.n., 1563)
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PEDRO NUNES
Petri Nonii Salaciensis Opera (Basileae: Henricpetri,1566)
Digitized by Google / Original from BSB
PEDRO NUNES
De arte atque ratione navigandi (Conimbricae : a Mariis, 1573)
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RODRIGO ZAMORANO
Compendio de la arte de nauegar (1582)
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RODRIGO ZAMORANO
Compendio del arte de navegar (Sevilla: en casa de Ioan de Leon, 1588)
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RODRIGO ZAMORANO
Compendio de la arte de nauegar (1591)
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PEDRO DE SYRIA
Arte de la verdadera nauegacion en que se trata de la machina del mu[n]do (1602)
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JOÃO BAPTISTA LAVANHA
Regimento Nautico (Lisboa: Simão Lopez, 1595)
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SIMÃO
DE OLIVEIRA
Arte de Navegar (1606)
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JOÃO BAPTISTA LAVANHA
Regimento Nautico (Em Lisboa: por Antonio Alvarez, 1606)
Not yet available online
ANDRÉS GARCÍA DE CESPEDES
Regimiento de navegacion (En casa de Juan de la Cuesta, 1606)
Source Google Books / Original from Universidad Complutense de Madrid
VALENTIM DE SÁ
Regimento da navegaçam
(Lisboa: Pedro Craesbeeck, 1624)
Not yet available online
LORENZO FERRER MALDONADO
- Imagen del mundo sobre la esfera, cosmografia y geografia teorica de planetas y arte de navegar (1626)
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ANTONIO DE NAIERA
Navegacion especulativa y pratica (Lisboa: Pedro Craesbeeck, 1628)
Source Archive.org / Original from Biblioteca Universidad Sevilla
LÁZARO
DE FLORES
Arte de Navegar (1673)
Digitized by Google, Original from Universidad Complutense de Madrid
LUÍS SERRÃO PIMENTEL
Arte pratica de navegar e regimento de pilotos (1681)
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MANUEL PIMENTEL
Arte pratica de navegar: & Roteiro (1699)
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MANUEL PIMENTEL
Arte de navegar, em que se ensinam as regras praticas (1712)
Digitized by Open Library / Internet Archive –Original from John Carter Brown Library
MANUEL PIMENTEL
Arte de navegar, em que se ensinam as regras praticas (1746)
Digitized by Open Library / Internet Archive –Original from John Carter Brown Library
MANUEL PIMENTEL
Arte de navegar, em que se ensinão as regras praticas (1762)
Digitized by Open Library / Internet Archive –Original from John Carter Brown Library
JOSÉ QUIROGA
Tratado de el arte verdadero de navegar pro circulo paralelo a la equinocial (1784)
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FRANCISCO
DE BARREDA
El marinero instruido en el arte de navegar especulativo y práctico que para la enseñanza de los colegiales del Real Seminario de San Telmo (1786)
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Astrolabes, quadrants & sea instruments
TEXT
Treatises on sea astrolabe and quadrant
16th – 17th centuries
Curated by Miguel C. Fernandes
Known since antiquity, the astrolabe and the quadrant became pieces of technology of key importance in early modern navigation. These instruments, together with the sextant, the balestilha, and others, kept being used and improved over the centuries.
In this section, we gather the dozens of treatises produced in the 16th and 17th centuries, on the construction and usage of these navigation instruments.
Regimento do Estrolabio e do Quadrante... (Lisboa: Herman de Kampos,1509)
Digitization of the facsimile (1914)
JACQUES FOCARD
Paraphrase de l'Astrolabe, contenant, les principes de geometrie, la sphere, l'astrolabe, ou, declaration des choses celestes, le miroir du monde, ou exposition des parties de la terre (Lyon: Jean de Tournes, 1546)
Digitized by British Library
JUAN AGUILERA
Canones astrolabii uniuersalis, secundo aediti (Salmanticae: excudebat Andreas à Portonariis, 1554)
Digitized by GREDOS, Universidad de Salamanca
IGNAZIO DANTI
Trattato dell'uso et della fabbrica dell'Astrolabio
(Firenze: Apresso I Giunti, 1569)
Digitized by Galiciana / Original from Museo Massó
LEVINUS HULSIUS
Theoria et praxis quadrantis geometrici &c., Das ist Beschreibung Vnterricht vnd Gebrauch des gevierdten geometrischen vnd anderer Instrument... (Norimbergae: Typiis Gerlachianis, 1594)
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MANUEL DE FIGUEIREDO
Chronographia : reportorio dos tempos, no qual se contem VI. partes, s. dos tempos: esphera, cosmographia, & arte da navegação... E no fim o uso, & fabrica da balhestilha, & quadrante gyometrico, com hum tratado dos relogios (Lisboa: Jorge Rodriguez, 1603)
Digitized by BNP / Biblioteca Nacional Digital
GULIELMUS RECHPERGER
Astrolabium. Eiusque usus tam astronomicus, quam geometricus, brevibus dilucidis ac facilibus regulis explicatus (Augsburg: David Francus, 1611)
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TEOFILO BRUNI
Novo planisferio, o Astrolabio universale istromento, che abbraccia tutti gli istromenti matematici... (Vicenza: Francesco Grossi, 1625)
Available on EUROPEANA / Digitized by Giardino di Archimede-Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Firenze / Original from Biblioteca di storia delle scienze "Carlo Viganò" Brescia
FRANZ RITTER
Astrolabium, Das ist: Gründliche Beschreibung und Unterricht, wie solches herrliche und hochnützliche Astronomische Instrument, auff allerley Polus Höh... (Nürnberg: In Verlegung Paulus Fürst, [1660])
Digitized by Google Books / Original from Deutsches Museum
JOHN BROWN
The Triangular Quadrant; or the Quadrant on a Sector. Being a general Instrument for land or sea observations (London: John Browne & Hen. Sutton, 1662)
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JOHN HEWLETT
The description and use of a quadrant by which all the most useful and necessary propositions of both the globes are easily and exactly performed... (London: Published by J. H. for the use of such as are Mathematically affected, Printed for the Author, 1672)
Digitized by British Library
ANTONIO DE GAZTAÑETA ITURRIBALZAGA
Norte de la navegacion hallado por el quadrante de reduccion (En Sevilla: por Juan Francisco de Blas, 1692)
Available on Hathi Trust Digital Library / Digitized by Google / Original from Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Pedro de Medina
Arte de navegar (1545)
[Dedication to then crown prince Philip]:
«Lo segundo, serenissimo señor, que a esto me ha mouido fue, que yo muchas vezes he puesto mi memoria en considerar quan gran numero de gentes nauegam: y que no solamente las partes notas y sabidas, mas las muy remotas y apartadas, y que dellas no ay noticia, se procuran nauegando buscar y saber: y viendo quan largos y peligrosos caminos por la mar se hazen, y que pocos de los que nauegan saben lo que a la nauegacion se requiere, la causa es porque ni ay maestros que lo enseñen, ni libros en que lo leam.»
Pedro de Medina’s Arte de navegar
Editions & translations (1545–1634)
Curated by Luana Giurgevich
Some books moved the imagination of all Europe more than others. Pedro de Medina's Arte de navegar is one of them.
The book was translated at least 20 times. Originally published in 1545, it was quickly translated into Italian and French, but, curiously, not to Dutch and English until 1580–1581.
Arte de nauegar (1545)
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L’arte del navegar. Translated by Vincenzo Paletino da Corzula (Venezia: 1554)
Digitized by Bayerische StaatsBibliothek
L’art de naviguer. Traduction de Nicolas de Nicolay (Lyon: 1554)
Digitized by Bayerische StaatsBibliothek
L’arte del navegar. Translated by Vincenzo Paletino da Corzula (Venezia: 1555)
Digitized by Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
L’art de naviguer. Traduction de Nicolas de Nicolay (Lyon: 1561)
Digitized by Bayerische StaatsBibliothek
L’art de naviguer. Traduction de Nicolas de Nicolay (Lyon: 1569)
Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque Nationale de France
L’art de naviguer. Traduction de Nicolas de Nicolay (Rouen: 1573)
Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque Nationale de France
L’art de naviguer. Traduction de Nicolas de Nicolay (Lyon: 1576)
Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque Nationale de France
L’art de naviguer. Traduction de Nicolas de Nicolay (Rouen: 1577)
Source Google Books / Original from Ghent University
L’art de naviguer. Traduction de Nicolas de Nicolay (Rouen: 1579)
Digitized by Google – Original from the National Library of the Czech Republic
Der Zeeuaert, Oft Conste van ter Zee te varen. Transl. by Martin Everaert (Antwerp: 1580)
Source Archive.org / Original from John Carter Brown Library
The arte of navigation. Translated by John Frampton (London 1581)
Not yet available online
Der Zeeuaert, Oft Conste van ter Zee te varen (Amsterdam: 1589)
Source Google Books / Original from Ghent University
The arte of navigation. Translated by John Frampton (London 1595)
Not yet available online
Der Zeeuaert, Oft Conste van ter Zee te varen (Amsterdam: 1598)
Not yet available online
L’art de naviguer. Traduction de Nicolas de Nicolay (Rouen: 1602)
Source Google Books / Original from Universiteitsbibliotheek Utrecht
L’art de naviguer. Traduction de Nicolas de Nicolay (Rouen: 1607)
Not yet available online
L’arte del nauigare (Venezia: 1609)
Source Archive.org / Original from John Carter Brown Library
L’art de naviguer. Traduction de Nicolas de Nicolay (La Rochelle: 1615)
Not yet available online
L’art de naviguer. Traduction de Nicolas de Nicolay (La Rochelle: 1618)
Not yet available online
L’art de naviguer. Traduction de Nicolas de Nicolay (Rouen: 1628)
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L’art de naviguer. Traduction de Nicolas de Nicolay (Rouen: 1633)
Source Google Books / Original from Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
L’art de naviguer. Traduction de Nicolas de Nicolay (Rouen: 1634)
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Fig. From the rutter of Andrés de Poza, Hydrografia, la mas curiosa que hasta aqui ha salido a luz : en que de mas de vn derrotero general, se enseña la navegacion por altura y derrota, y la del Este Oeste con la Graduacion de los puertos, y la navegacion al Catayo por cinco vias diferentes... Bilbao : por Matias Mares, 1585.
Spanish printed rutters
Printed editions (16th–18th centuries)
Curated by Luana Giurgevich
MARTÍN FERNÁNDEZ
DE ENCISO
Suma de geographía que trata de todas las partidas del Mundo, em especial de las Indias. Y trata largamente del arte de marear (1519)
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ANDRÉS DE POZA
Hydrographia la mas curiosa (Bilbao: 1585)
Digitized by Biblioteca Virtual del Ministerio de Defensa, Original from Observatorio de Marina de San Fernando
BERNARDINO ESCALANTE
Discurso de la navegacion que los portugueses hazen (Sevilla: 1577)
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BERNARDINO ESCALANTE
A discourse of the nauigation which the Portugales doe make (London: 1579) Transl. by John Frampton
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GABRIEL CHAVES DE OSORIO
Derrotero y relacion que su señoria el señor preste d. Gabriel de Chaves Osorio
(s.l., [1630])
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ANTÓNIO DE MARIZ CARNEIRO
Hydrographia la mas curiosa (1675)
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FRANCISCO DE SEIJAS Y LOBERA
Descripción Geographica, y derrotero de la Region Austral Magallanica (1690)
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VICENTE TOFIÑO DE SAN MIGUEL
Derrotero de las costas de España en el Mediterraneo (1787–1789)
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FRANCISCO DE SEIJAS Y LOBERA
Theatro Naval Hydrographico, de los fluxos, y refluxos (Madrid: 1688)
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William Bourne (16th century)
Fig. Plans for Bourne underwater boat.
William Bourne's books on navigation (1567–1631)
Curated by Luana Giurgevich
In this section we present the printed works from the pen of the English mathematician William Bourne, active from 1565 to 1582. The Regiment for the Sea had more than 10 English editions, 4 Dutch editions and an edition for Spanish readers printed in London.
LOST EDITION
An almanacke and prognostication for three yeares... now newlye added vnto my late rulles of nauigation, was pruued iiij yeres past.
London : by Thomas Purfoote, [1567].
An Almanac and Prognostication for Three Years... Lord. 1571. and 1572. & 1573...
[Colophon: Imprinted at London in Paules... by Thomas Purfoote, 1567] [1571].
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Regiment for the Sea.
London: By [Henry Bynneman for] Thomas Hacket, and are to be solde at his shop in the Royall Exchaunge, at the signe of the Greene Dragon, [1574].
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A Regiment for the Sea.
London: by Thomas Dawson and Thomas Gardyner for Iohn Wight, 1577.
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A booke called the treasure for traueilers : deuided into fiue bookes or partes, contaynyng very necessary matters, for all sortes of trauailers, eyther by sea or by lande
1578
Source Archive.org / Digitized by Associates of the Boston Public Library / Original from
LOST EDITION
[Inventions or Devises. Very necessary for all Gener–alles and Captaines, or Leaders of men, as wel by Sea as by Land]
[1578?–printed before 1580]
Listed by Bourne in his Almanacke of 1581
A Regiment for the Sea.
London: T. East, for Iohn Wight, 1580.
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A Regiment for the Sea.
London: T. East, for Iohn Wight, 1584.
Not yet available online
SPANISH EDITION
Discurso hydrografico sobre la navegacion del Catayo...
included in Hydrografia la mas curiosa of ANDRÉS DE POZA
Bilbao: por Mathias Mares,1585.
Digitized by Biblioteca Virtual del Ministerio de Defensa, Original from Observatorio de Marina de San Fernando
A Regiment for the Sea...
London: T. East, for Iohn Wight, 1587.
Not yet available online
A Regiment for the Sea... Newlie corrected and amended by Thomas Hood...
London: T. East, for Iohn Wight, 1592.
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DUTCH EDITION
Der Const der Zee–vaerdt...
Amstelredam: Cornelis Claesz...:1594.
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Regiment for the Sea.
1596
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DUTCH EDITION
Amstelredam: Cornelis Claesz: 1599.
Not yet available online
Regiment for the Sea.
1601
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Regiment for the Sea.
1606?
Not yet available online
DUTCH EDITION
Amstelredam: Cornelis Claesz: 1609.
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Regiment for the Sea.
London : Weaver, 1611.
Not yet available online
DUTCH EDITION
Amsterdam: Willem Jansz Blaeu, 1614.
Not yet available online
Regiment for the Sea.
1617?
Not yet available online
Regiment for the Sea.
London : Weaver, 1620.
Not yet available online
Regiment for the Sea.
At London: Printed by W. I[ones] for Thomas Weauer..., [1631].
Not yet available online
Treatises on Shipbuilding
Fig. Plate XIX: Olandus Carauellam & Cafas Aedificare Curat, or “Lope de Olano Rebuilds His Ship: First Ship Built in America”, circa 1594.
Americae Pars Qvarta. Sive, Insignis & Admiranda Historia de reperta primùm Occidentali India à Christophoro Columbo Anno M.CCCCXCII. Collectiones peregrinatiorum in Indiam orientalem et Indiam occidentalem, XIII partibus comprehenso a Theodoro, Joan-Theodoro de Bry, et a Matheo Merian publicatae. Francofurti. 1590–1634.
Treatises on Shipbuilding
Printed editions (16th–18th centuries)
Curated by Fabiano Bracht & Luana Giurgevich
DIEGO GARCÍA DE PALACIO
Instrucion nauthica, para el buen uso, y regimiento de las Naos, su traça, y govierno conforme à la altura de Mexico,
1587.
Original and digital copy from the Library of Congress (US)
BARTOLOMEO CRESCENTIO ROMANO
Nautica Mediterranea, 1604.
Digitized by Archive.org, Original from John Carter Brown Library
TOMÉ CANO
Arte para fabricar, fortificar, y apareiar naos de guerra, y merchante. Impresso en Sevilla: Casa de Luis Estupiñan, 1611.
Digitized by Biblioteca Virtual del Patrimonio Bibliográfico, Original from Real Instituto y Observatorio de la Armada (San Fernando)
JOSEPH
FURTTENBACH
Architectura Navalis, Das ist: Von dem Schiff-Gebäw, Auff dem Meer vnd Seekusten zugebrauchen, 1629
Digitized byMDZ - Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum Digitale Bibliothek, Deutschen Nationalbibliothek
F. DASSIÉ
L'architecture navale, contenant la maniere de construire les navires, galeres & chaloupes, & la definition de plusieurs autres especes de vaisseaux,
1677
Digitized by Archive.org, Original from John Carter Brown Library
CAREL ALARD
Nieuwe Hollandse scheeps-bouw, waar in vertoond word een volmaakt schip, met alle des zelfs uitterlyke deelen. Volume 1,
1695
Digitized by Google Books, Original from the National Library of the Netherlands
CORNELIS VAN IJK
De Nederlandsche scheeps-bouw-konst,
1697
Digitized by Google Books, Original from the National Library of the Netherlands
SYMON VAN DE MOLEN
De volmaakte Boots-man,
1698
Digitized by Google Books, Original from the Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden
CAREL ALARD
Nieuwe Hollandse scheeps-bouw, waar in vertoond word een volmaakt schip, met alle des zelfs uitterlyke deelen. Volume 2,
1705
Digitized by Google Books, Original from the National Library of the Netherlands
WILLIAM SUTHERLAND
The ship-builders assistant : or, some essays towards compleating the art of marine architecture.
1711
Digitized by ECHO – Cultural Heritage Online, Original from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Library
ANTONIO DE GAZTAÑETA E ITURRIBALZAGA
Proporciones de las medidas mas essempciales,
1720
Digitized by Biblioteca Digital Hispánica, Original from Biblioteca Nacional de España
PIERRE BOUGER
Traité du navire, de sa construction et de ses mouvemens,
1746
Digitized by Google Books, Original from Lyon Public Library
LEONHARD EULER
Scientia navalis sen tractatus de construendis ac dirigendis navidus, 1749.
Digitized by Archive.org/ Google, Original from - Unknow Library
MUNGO MURRAY
A treatise on ship-building and navigation,
1754
Digitized by Archive.org, Original from Independence Seaport Museum, J. Welles Henderson Archives and Library
JORGE JUAN Y SANTACILIA
Examen maritimo theórico práctico ó Tratado de mechanica. tomo primero,
1771
Digitized by Archive.org, OrifBiblioteca General de la Universidad de Sevilla
JORGE JUAN Y SANTACILIA
Examen maritimo theórico práctico ó Tratado de mechanica. tomo segundo,
1771
Digitized by Archive.org, OrifBiblioteca General de la Universidad de Sevilla
FREDERIK HENRIK AF CHAPMAN
Traité de la construction des vaisseaux,
1775
Digitized by BNF - Gallica, Original from Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Réserve des livres rares
CIPRIANO VIMERCATI
Discurso sobre la arquitectura naval antigua y moderna, 1787
Digitized by Binlioteca Digital Hispanica, Original from Biblioteca Nacional de España
Main sources
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