GEOGRAPHER

Pedro Reinel

1500 - 1542

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Pedro Reinel (fl. 1485 – 1540) was a Portuguese cartographer. Between 1485 and 1519 Reinel served three Portuguese kings: João II, Manuel I and João III. He and his son, Jorge Reinel, were among the most renowned cartographers of their era, a period when European knowledge of geography and cartography were expanding rapidly. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pedro Reinel has received more than 43,275 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Pedro Reinel is the 53rd most popular geographer (down from 48th in 2019).

Memorability Metrics

  • 43k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Pedro Reinel ranks 53 out of 86. Before him are Jan Janssonius, Yi-Fu Tuan, Inō Tadataka, Richard Hartshorne, Giovanni Battista Ramusio, and Arnold Henry Guyot. After him are Hans Meyer, Yves Lacoste, Johann Gottlieb Georgi, Guillaume Delisle, Emmanuel de Martonne, and Claes Jansz. Visscher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1500, Pedro Reinel ranks 43. Before him are Jacob Hutter, Ambrosius Benson, Luis de Narváez, Rum Mehmed Pasha, Georg Pencz, and Robert de Nola. After him are Ligier Richier, Corneille de Lyon, Caupolicán, Theodore Bibliander, Martim Afonso de Sousa, and João de Castro. Among people deceased in 1542, Pedro Reinel ranks 19. Before him are Cristóvão da Gama, Diego de Almagro II, Nikolaus Federmann, Girolamo Aleandro, Ludwig Senfl, and Gasparo Contarini. After him are Philotheus of Pskov, Juan Boscán Almogáver, and Angelo Beolco.

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