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Last Name Reinel
Given Name Pedro
alt. Names P. R. ; Pietro Reynel ;
Marriage
Children cartographer -> Jorge Reinel (1518-1572)
Year born 1464 c.
Year died 1542 or later
Place of death
Father's occupation
Relatives
Education
Country of Activity Portugal
Worked for Atlas Miller (known as Lopo Homem-Reineis Atlas, a Portuguese richly illustrated atlas, 1519) ;
Patronage
Collaborators ->Jorge Reinel (son) & cartographer Lopo Homem, he participated in the construction of the Miller Atlas of 1519 ;
Techniques geographical and topographical drawing ; cartographic map-making, esp. or portolan charts; astronomical & mathematical drawing
Sample(s) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Pedro_Reinel_1504.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Maps_by_Pedro_Reinel
Archival sources http://cartographic-images.net/Cartographic_Images/307.2_Reinel.html ; http://www.mapsofworld.com/cartography/medieval/pedro-reinel.html
Published sources
other Portuguese cartographer of the 16th century, author of one of the oldest signed Portuguese nautical chart c. 1485, eflecting the explorations made by Diogo Cão in 1482-1485.
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