Who was Patrick Henry the navigator of Portugal?

Answer 1

Henry the Navigator was a Portuguese prince in the 15th century. He was the third son of John I of Portugal. At that time the Spanish and the Portuguese competed who would find the new route to India and the Far East by sea. He patronized and sponsored the seamen who made explorations on the Atlantic and down the west coast of Africa. He established a navigation school (actually the first and the only one in Europe) where seamen and scientists made maps, dealt with astronomy, made the first observatory in Portugal, desinged new kinds of ships, etc.