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    Pedro de Medina (1493 – Seville, 1567) was a Spanish cartographer and author of navigational texts. His well-known Arte de navegar ("The Art of Navigation"...
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    the Medina Sidonias House of Olivares House of Guzmán House of Medina Sidonia [1] BOE DE MEDINA, Pedro (b. 1503), Crónica de los Duques de Medina Sidonia...
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    services to farmers and ranchers. The Medina River was named after Pedro de Medina, a Spanish cartographer, by Alonso de León, Spanish governor of Coahuila...
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    encounter the river. Because Pedro de Medina derived his surname from the Andalusian city of Medina-Sidonia, the name Medina comes from the Arabic for city...
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    reproduced almost verbatim in the Libro of Spanish historian Pedro de Medina (1548). Medina gives the island's dimensions as 87 leagues in length and 28...
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    The House of Medina Sidonia (Spanish: Casa de Medina Sidonia) is a Spanish noble house originating from the crown of Castile, whose name comes from the...
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    Pedro de Alcántara Álvarez de Toledo y Palafox, 12th Marquess of Molina, 13th Marquess of Villafranca (11 May 1803 in Madrid – 10 January 1867 in Madrid)...
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    observations of Amerigo Vespucci and Andrea Corsali, as well as the report of Pedro de Medina. Uranometria contains many more stars than did any previous star atlas...
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    and French pilots learned to navigate from the texts of Pedro de Medina, Martín Fernández de Enciso and Martín Cortés, among others. The conjunction of...
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    "cosmographers") in the Casa de Contratación working on the Padrón Real included Alonso de Santa Cruz, Sebastian Cabot, and Pedro de Medina. The mapmaker Diego...
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