Talk:Portuguese maritime exploration

Columbus mention
why there isn't any reference to Columbus? He was portuguese. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.246.22.38 (talk) 13:05, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Celestial Navigation
The article uses "celestial navigation" as one of its headings, yet it never actually goes into any detail. You just say that ships used this, this, and this when they were sailing and because the tools all used cosmic bodies you just used it as the heading. there needs to be detailed information on how celestial navigation occurred if you're going to use it as a heading. There is mention of the ephemerides,but you don't say anything about the quadrant, astrolabe, nocturnal, or any of the other instruments. Casini1 (talk) 15:43, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

Theory of Portuguese in Australia
There is an entire page now devoted to the contentious topic of the Theory of Portuguese discovery of Australia. I'm of the view the 1520 and 1522 entries now listed here are pretty misleading, although they may appeal to nationalistic sentiment. I havent made any contributions to this page though, so am raising it as a courtesy before sticking my foot in.--Nickm57 (talk) 06:23, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

The Discovery of the Southern and Austral "Island of Gold", the "Land of Gold" by the expedition of Diogo Pacheco in 1520 is also described by the historian and chronicler Manuel de Faria e Sousa (1590-1649), as previously by Barros, chronicler and historian (1496-1570). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.113.163.75 (talk) 12:09, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
 * So...are you going going to write an article on Pacheco? There is already a page on Manuel de Faria e SousaNickm57 (talk) 13:02, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Nationalistic for Portugal or England? It's a petty the Lisbon great earthquake destroyed some very important documents that would put the matter to rest. On the other hand, one can always speculate how a proliferous maritime exploring nation reached Indonesia, Timor, Papua New Guinea, New Hebrides, criss crossing vast swathes of ocean and so on, but never looked southwards... Astonishing! CharlieCares (talk) 01:43, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

Portuguese monarchy
The inclusion of the template "Portuguese Monarchy" as the leading image of Portuguese discoveries makes no sense. That is why I have removed it once more. It would be perfectly all right in a text devoted to the Portuguese monarchy or royal family, but it is obviously not suited to this particular article or to any other not directly concerned with the subject. As is the addition strongly looks like a political POV. Alvesgaspar (talk) 08:52, 5 March 2012 (UTC)


 * But also if it makes no sense then there may not be an explanation for why the royal family may or may not have made a diary. If the royal family may have then we have not found it by now, obviously. But if they did not then we have no chance of finding proof besides the artifacts that something we assume may have happened. So there for we do not know how much we are missing or if the royal family AFTER PRINCE HENRY THE NAVIIGATOR wrote a diary or not that contains the current event of that century or time period. - User:24.127.149.180, 22:06, 7 January 2013

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What is all this nonsense?
"Discoveries"? I am pretty sure everything mentioned in that section was already known about, for thousands of years. I have renamed it "maritime exploration". Where are the scientific, medical, astronomical discoveries? THe page was too general a title for the content, whcih was ALL maritime. Similarly, though there is a period known as The Age of Discovery, it was also known as The Age of Exploration and The Early Modern Period. If I visit a page on "Country X's Discoveries", I would expect to find ALL their discoveries listed there, not just the maritime ones from some small period of history. Chaosdruid (talk) 22:35, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Well done. Carlstak (talk) 00:56, 19 September 2022 (UTC)