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The development of nautical sciences, including the augmentation of pre-existing techniques and tools, on the Iberian Peninsula generated new technology and had a direct, visible, and lasting effect on long range ship board navigation.
New ship developments were needed for merchants and as ships improved people realized they had potential to explore. And once people knew they had a desire to explore, ships changed their function as well. Ships for exploration had one main job: to carry an explorer's feedback, they did not have to carry a merchant's goods or a warrior's guns. [16]
A pre-Mercator nautical chart of 1571, from Portuguese cartographer Fernão Vaz Dourado (c. 1520–c. 1580). It belongs to the so-called plane chart model, where observed latitudes and magnetic directions are plotted directly into the plane, with a constant scale, as if the Earth were plane (Portuguese National Archives of Torre do Tombo, Lisbon).
Category: Maritime history of Spain. ... Iberian ship development, 1400–1600; P. Pilot Major of Spain This page was last edited on 20 September 2023, at 23:24 ...
San Diego (ship) San Esteban (1554 shipwreck) San Miguel (1551 shipwreck) Santa Anna (1522 ship) Santa Catarina do Monte Sinai; Santa Maria de Visón (de Biscione) São Bento (carrack) São João Baptista (galleon) São Martinho (1580) Speedwell (1577 ship) English ship Squirrel (1570s) English ship Swiftsure (1573)
The ships of the Age of Discovery post-dated the fusion of the northern European [a] and Mediterranean ship-building traditions. Prior to the late 13th/early 14th centuries, northern European ships were typically clinker built , [ b ] with a single mast setting a square sail and a centre-line rudder hung on the sternpost with pintles and gudgeons .
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