Abstract
In 1579, Coignet wrote the book for which he is still best known today: Nieuwe Onderwijsinghe op de principaelste puncten der Zeeuaert (New Instruction on the principal points of navigation) as an appendix to the translation of Arte de Navegar by Pedro de Medina. Apart from Waghenaer’s naval atlases, these were the only books on navigation to be published in Antwerp or the Southern Netherlands. Medina’s and Coignet’s books would subsequently be reprinted on three occasions by Cornelis Claesz. from Amsterdam (1589, 1592, 1598). In this chapter we describe which knowledge was transmitted through these books and investigate how innovative the books were.
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Meskens, A. (2013). The Art of Navigation. In Archimedes (Vol. 31, pp. 139–160). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5721-9_8
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