Diogo Ribeiro

Diego Ribero (Portuguese Diogo Ribeiro, also called Diego de Ribero, Diego (de) Rivero, Diego Ribeiro or Diego Ribeira ) ( † August 16, 1533 ) was a Spanish cartographer and explorer of Portuguese descent.

He stood first, from 1518, in the service of Charles V as a cartographer of the authority Casa de Contratación in Seville. A year later, he received the Spanish citizenship. Shortly thereafter, he worked out the maps Magellan, who had just completed his first circumnavigation.

On January 10, 1523, he received the title cosmógrafo real and maestro de hacer cartas, astrolabios y otros instrumentos de navegación.

In 1524 Ribero took as Spanish delegate part in the Badajoz - conference, the area dispute over the Philippines fought out diplomatically in Spain and Portugal. It was also about the implementation of the Treaty of Tordesillas.

In 1531 he invented a bronze water pump that made ​​a ten- fold higher flow rate than the previous pump.

He died on 16 August 1533.

Padrón real

Riberos most important merit is to create the map Padrón real from the year 1527, copies of which are in the Klassik Stiftung Weimar ( Mundus Novus ) and are of the Vatican Library. It is the first world map, which is based on empirical research. The map incorporates many details of Juan Sebastian Elcano.

Very accurate for its time was the appearance of Central and South America, Australia and Antarctica were missing. India was represented too small, however, the map for the first time the vastness of the Pacific Ocean dar. thus Ribero was the cartographer Sebastian Cabot before, who also drew up a map of the world, this ( Il paese di Roma) but only published in 1547. All Spanish warships were now equipped with it.

A ball projection of Riberos world map Propoganda from the year 1529 is to be the world's largest Historic Globe " Mercateum " in King Brunn.