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A pink of the winds is a figure indicating the cardinal points: Northern, southern, is, western. They often also indicate intermediate orientations, up to 32. In fact, the initial pinks did not indicate four directions but eight Vent S.
Today, one often finds pinks of the winds with the indication W in the place of O, for the English W is. It was the same in the past, where the east could be indicated by the letter L (for Italian Levante , raising) and north by the letter T (for Italian tramontana , Tramontane, or by a Fleur-of-lily. Lastly, the pinks of the winds of the Moyen-âge had sometimes is in top, to indicate that Jerusalem (in the east from the European point of view) was higher than all.
The first “modern” pink of the winds, directed towards north and with 32 points, was drawn by the Portuguese Pedro Reinel in her chart of 1504.
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