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Last Name Homem

Given Name Diogo

alt. Names D. H. ;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1520 or 1521

Year died 1576

Place of death

Father's occupation cartographer and cosmographer Lopo Homem (fl. 1517-1532)

Relatives cartographier André Homem 1560-1586) (brother)

Education

Country of Activity Portugal

Worked for Atlas de Diego Homen (1561) ; atlas universal ; ˜La œvera descrittione della navigatione di tutta l'Europpa, et parte dell'Affrica et dell'Asia, quali confinano con essa (Rome 1572) ;

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Techniques geographical and topographic drawing ; cartographic map-making, esp. or portolan charts; astronomical & mathematical drawing

Sample(s) www.uc.pt/fluc/coimbra-marrakech/indexfr/sources/icono/14.JPG?hires ; ..../icono/13.jpg?hires & .../12.jpg ;

Archival sources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogo_Homem#mediaviewer/File:Diogo_Homem_1563.jpg

Published sources

other Due to a crime of murder, in which he was influcted, he was forced to exile from Portugal, first in England, and then in Venice. It was there that he produced numerous manuscript atlases and charts, many of them of the Mediterranean.

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