Luís Teixeira

Luís Teixeira or Ludovico Teixeira was a 16th‑century Portuguese cartographer and mathematician. He had two sons, Pedro Teixeira Albernaz and João Teixeira Albernaz I, also cartographers. In 1564 he passed his licensing examination in cosmography under Pedro Nunes and Jorge Reinel, and by 1569 he held a royal commission to oversee the production and correction of all navigational charts and instruments for the crown’s fleets.

Teixeira contributed a well‑known early map of Japan (''Iaponiae Insulae Descriptio'') to Abraham Ortelius's atlas ''Theatrum Orbis Terrarum''. It was the first separate map of Japan, and was for many years the standard map of Japan used by Europeans (until the 1655 map by Martino Martini).

An important atlas of the colony of Brazil is attributed to Teixeira, entitled ''Roteiro de todos os sinais, conhecimentos, fundos, baixos, alturas, e derrotas que há na costa do Brasil desde o Cabo de Santo Agostinho até ao estreito de Fernão de Magalhães'' (1586). He conducted original coastal surveys in Brazil between 1573 and 1578 and in the Azores before 1582; these formed the basis for his Brazilian rutter and for charts of the Azores published by Ortelius in 1582 and 1584. Provided by Wikipedia