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Pedro Teixeira Albernaz

Pedro Teixeira Albernaz is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Pedro Teixeira Albernaz rather than just read about it. In short: Pedro Teixeira Albernaz was a Portuguese cartographer born in 1595 in Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal. He came from a family of cartographers including his father Luís Teixeira, uncle Domingos Teixeira, and his brother João Teixeira Albernaz I who he collaborated with.

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Reference excerpt

Pedro Teixeira Albernaz was a Portuguese cartographer born in 1595 in Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal. He came from a family of cartographers including his father Luís Teixeira, uncle Domingos Teixeira, and his brother João Teixeira Albernaz I who he collaborated with. Around 1610, Pedro went to work in Spain. Pedro served as the royal cosmographer to Philip III of Spain (1598 -1621) and Philip IV (1621-1665). In the years 1622 to 1630 he worked on mapping the coasts of the Iberian Peninsula. Pedro changed his works from nautical charts to topographical survey chart throughout this time period. Pedro was appointed with his brother to make a map of Straits of Magellan and St. Vincent. Pedro died in 1662 in Madrid.

Contributions His 1634 work La descripción de España y de las costas y puertos de sus reinos (Description of Spain and of the Coasts and Ports of Her Kingdoms) is preserved in Vienna. Teixeira's map is made of twenty individual folios. The plates for the map were engraved by Salomon Savery (1594–1665) in Amsterdam. They were then printed by Jan and Jacques van Veerle in Antwerp in 1656. This work is six feet high and over nine feet wide and a good representation of a city under Habsburg rule. The map and writing along the border show Spain at the height of its power. The work also is a very accurate layout of the city at the time.

Works

Carta dos Estreitos de S. Vicente e Magalhães (1621) La descripción de España y de las costas y puertos de sus reinos (1634) Topografía de Madrid (1656) Corral de la Cruz. Madrid (1656) El convento de la Trinidad Calzada de Madrid en el plano de Teixeira (1656) Corral del Príncipe. Madrid (1656)

Bibliography CORTESÃO, Armando, e MOTA, Avelino Teixeira da, Portugaliae Monumenta Cartographica. Vols. IV, V, Lisboa: INCM, 1987. Jesús Escobar, Map as Tapestry: Science and Art in Pedro Teixeira's 1656 Representation of Madrid. The Art Bulletin: Vol. 96 Iss. 1, 2014 MOTA, A. Teixeira da, Cartas Portuguesas Antigas na Colecção de Groote Schuur. Lisboa: Centro de Estudos de Cartografia Antiga/Junta de Investigações Científicas do Ultramar, 1977. "Pedro Teixeira Albernaz." Maps of The World Legends. MapsoftheWorld.com, n.d. Web. VITERBO, Sousa, Trabalhos Náuticos dos Portugueses, Séculos XVI e XVII. Lisboa: INCM, 1988.

References

External links Maps of the coast of Galicia The atlas of "Rey Planeta" The family Teixeira Albernaz Maps by Pedro Teixeira Albernaz Map as Tapestry: Science and Art in Pedro Teixeira's 1656 Representation of Madrid

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Pedro Teixeira Albernaz

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Pedro Teixeira Albernaz claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Pedro Teixeira Albernaz before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Pedro Teixeira Albernaz ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Pedro Teixeira Albernaz

In research: Pedro Teixeira Albernaz appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Pedro Teixeira Albernaz in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Pedro Teixeira Albernaz is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1590s births, 1662 deaths, 17th-century Portuguese cartographers, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Pedro Teixeira Albernaz outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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