Editing Prince Henry the Navigator (section)

== Origin of the "Navigator" nickname ==
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No one used the nickname "Henry the Navigator" to refer to Prince Henry during his lifetime or in the following three centuries. The term was coined by two nineteenth-century German historians: [[:de:Heinrich Schäfer (Historiker)|Heinrich Schaefer]] and Gustave de Veer. Later on it was made popular by two British authors who included it in the titles of their biographies of the prince: Henry Major in 1868 and [[Raymond Beazley]] in 1895.<ref name="Randles" /> 

Contrary to his brothers, Prince Henry was not praised for his intellectual gifts by his contemporaries. It was only later chroniclers such as [[João de Barros]] and [[Damião de Góis]] who attributed him a scholarly character and an interest for [[cosmography]]. The myth of the "[[Sagres school]]" allegedly founded by Prince Henry was created in the 18th century, mainly by [[Samuel Purchas]] and [[Abbé Prévost]]. In nineteenth-century Portugal, the idealized vision of Prince Henry as a putative pioneer of exploration and science reached its apogee.<ref>{{Cite book| publisher = University of Chicago Press| isbn = 978-0-226-90733-8| volume = 3| editor-first = David | editor-last=Woodward | last1 = Alegria| first1 = Maria Fernanda| last2 = Daveau| first2 = Suzanne| last3 = Garcia| first3 = Joao Carlos| last4 = Relaño| first4 = Francesc| title = Cartography in the European Renaissance| chapter = Portuguese Cartography in the Renaissance| series = The History of Cartography| date = 2007| url = https://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/HOC_V3_Pt1/HOC_VOLUME3_Part1_chapter38.pdf| page = 1002}}</ref>