Pedro Reinel

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Pedro Reinel nautical map (around 1485). Départementale de la Gironde Archives, Bordeaux.
Wind rose with fleur-de-lys in Reinel's Atlantic map from 1504
Pedro Reinel nautical map (c. 1504). Bavarian State Library, Munich.

Pedro Reinel (* around 1464; † after 1542) was a Portuguese cartographer .

He produced the oldest signed nautical chart around 1485. This portolan shows parts of Western Europe, parts of Northwest Africa and also shows the discoveries of Diogo Cão from 1482 to 1485. Together with his son Jorge Reinel and the cartographer Lopo Homen , he contributed to the creation of the well-known Miller Atlas (1519). His Atlantic map is the first nautical chart with a scale and a wind rose .

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SURNAME Reinel, Pedro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1464
DATE OF DEATH after 1542