Les cartographes Reinel et les cartes de l’expédition de Fernand de Magellan

Abstract

The aim of this article is to examine the relationship of the two Portuguese cartographers, Pedro Reinel and his son Jorge, with Fernand de Magellan, as well as the implications that their cartographic production had in the preparation and the unfolding of the famous circumnavigation voyage. For this reason, it retraces broadly the routes of the two cartographers, first in Portugal and then in Andalusia, simultaneously seeking, in Magellan’s biography, the times and places of a possible crossroads between the navigator and the two map makers. While examining the cartographic production of the Reinel, he also examines the issue of the charts used aboard the ships of the expedition, privileging one of the nautical charts attributed to Reinel, the 1825 Hazine preserved in the library of the Topkapı Palace Museum in Istanbul.