Pedro Reinel

สถานที่: Portugal

เกิด: 1485

ความตาย: 1542

ชีวประวัติ:

Pedro Reinel was a Portuguese cartographer born in 1485 in Portugal and died in 1542. He was one of the most renowned cartographers of his era, a period when European knowledge of geography and cartography were expanding rapidly. He served three Portuguese kings: João II, Manuel I and João III. He was the author of one of the oldest signed Portolan charts, tentatively dated about 1485. He also participated in the construction of the well-known Miller Atlas (1519) with his son Jorge Reinel and cartographer Lopo Homem. He demonstrated an understanding of magnetic variation with the use of two different meridians. He has a Portuguese postage stamp in his honour.