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<p>Created page with &#039;<a href="/NAPwiki/index.php/Category:Projects" title="Category:Projects">category: Projects</a> <a href="/NAPwiki/index.php/File:AHVaranda_planking.jpg" title="File:AHVaranda planking.jpg">Alex&#039; Nau from the Livro náutico</a> <a href="/NAPwiki/index.php/File:00EnchimentosProaPopa04.jpg" title="File:00EnchimentosProaPopa04.jpg">Alex&#039; Nau from the Livro náutico</a> N…&#039;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[category: Projects]]<br /> [[File:AHVaranda planking.jpg|thumb|Alex' Nau from the Livro náutico]]<br /> [[File:00EnchimentosProaPopa04.jpg|thumb|left|Alex' Nau from the Livro náutico]]<br /> Nautical Archaeology Program Alex Hazlett has reconstructed, step by step, a Portuguese India nau following a list of timbers from a c. 1590 document titled &quot;Medidas pera fazer hua nao de seiscentas tonelladas, e os paos q hà de leuar de souoro e pinho.&quot;<br /> <br /> This list is part of a precious manuscript in Portugal's Biblioteca Nacional, titled Livro nautico ou meio pratico de construção de navios, e galés antigas, which the ShipLab and the National Library are working to make [http://nadl.tamu.edu/| available on-line].<br /> <br /> Not focusing too much on the hull shape, Alex has been able to place each of the timbers in its right place and deduce many of the scantlings with a good degree of certainty.<br /> <br /> His seminal work - which was the subject of his Ph.D. dissertation - has been the basis for further structural studies and stands as a major contribution to the understanding of Portuguese shipbuilding practices in the period under analysis.</div>

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