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{{short description|Portuguese cartographer}}
{{other people|João Teixeira}}
[[File:Planta da Restituição da BAHIA, por João Teixeira Albernaz.jpg|thumb|300px|Map showing the [[recapture of Bahia]] from the Dutch, ''Atlas of Brazil'' (1631) I. Teixeira Albernaz]]
'''João Teixeira Albernaz I''' also referred to as
==Biography==
[[File:Belém do Pará em mapa de 1629 por Albernaz I.PNG|thumb|left|Detail of "Pequeno atlas do Maranhão e Grão-Pará" showing the city of [[Belém]], Brazil, 1629]]
João Teixeira Albernaz must have learned the craft from his father [[Luís Teixeira]], starting his own work in the seventeenth century. On 29 October, 1602 he got his licence as master for "[[Nautical chart]]s, [[astrolabe]]s, [[compass needle]]s and [[cross-staff]]", having been examined by the royal chief-[[cosmographer]], João Baptista Lavanha. Three years later, in 1605, he was appointed [[cartographer]] for the [[Casa da Índia|Warehouse Guinea and India (Casa da Mina and India?)]], where he worked until the end of his life.▼
▲João Teixeira Albernaz must have learned the craft from his father [[Luís Teixeira]], starting his own work in the seventeenth century. On 29 October
In the [[Archive of the Indies]] in Seville, there is a document recording his presence and also his brother, [[Pedro Teixeira]] in [[Madrid]] in order to design charts of ''Strait of St. Vincent'' and the [[Strait of Magellan]]. In 1622 presented a petition to the post of chief cosmographer, but the post was passed over to Valentim de Sá. In the late seventeenth century, in an opinion issued by Manuel Pimentel about the 1642's Atlas of Brazil, warns that errors in the first chart of this Atlas, which did not respect the boundary agreed between Portugal and Spain, concluding that the book was "no more than good paintings and illuminations".▼
▲In the [[Archive of the Indies]] in Seville, there is a document recording his presence and also his brother, [[Pedro Teixeira]] in [[Madrid]] in order to design charts of ''Strait of St. Vincent'' and the [[Strait of Magellan]]. In 1622 presented a petition to the post of chief [[cosmographer]], but the post was passed over to Valentim de Sá. In the late seventeenth century, in an opinion issued by Manuel Pimentel about the 1642
==Works==
[[File:Taboas Geraes de Toda a Navegacao.tif|right|thumb|400px|Teixeira Albernaz's 1630 "General Chart for All Navigation" ({{lang|pt|Taboas Geraes de Toda a Navegação}}), displaying both the [[Treaty of Tordesillas|Tordesillas]] and [[Treaty of Zaragoza|Zaragoza Meridians]]{{sfnp|Whincup|Campo López|2022|pp=38–39}} (click to enlarge)]]
His work is of great interest both for its breadth and variety, and for the record of the progress of discovery and Portuguese maritime and overland exploration, particularly with regard to [[Colonial Brazil|Brazil]]. His works amount to nineteen [[atlas]], grouped and loose charts, in a total of two hundred and fifteen charts. Those include:
*c. 1616
*1621
*c. 1626
*1630
[[File:Portuguese map of Asia, 1630.jpg|thumb|
*1631
*1640
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==References==
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* {{citation |last1=Whincup |first1=Paul |last2=Campo López |first2=Antonio |contribution-url=https://www.rswa.org.au/publications/journal/105/RSWA%20105%20p35-42%20Whincup%20and%20Campo%20Lopez.pdf |contribution=Origin of the Western Austrlian Land Boundary |title=Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia |issue=105 |pages=35–42 |date=2022 |location=Perth |publisher=Royal Society of Western Australia}}.
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