 Heracles; the island was larger than Libya and Asia put together, and was the way to other islands, and from these you might pass to the whole of the opposite continent which surrounded the true ocean...  Cabot's Discovery of North America - Seite 317von George Edward Weare - 1897 - 343 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Plato - 1871 - 684 Seiten
...navigable; and there was an island situated in front of the straits which you call the columns of Heracles; the island was larger than Libya and Asia put together, and was the way to other islands, and from the 2 5 islands you might pass to the whole of the opposite continent which surrounded the true ocean ;... | |
 | California. Legislature - 1874 - 446 Seiten
...situate in front of the straits which you call the Pillars of Hercules. The island was larger than Lybia and Asia put together, and was the way to other islands, and from the islands you might pass to the whole of the opposite continent, which surrounded the true ocean; for this sea which is within... | |
 | Plato - 1874 - 626 Seiten
...; and there was an island situated in front of the straits which you call the columns of Heracles ; the island was larger than Libya and Asia put together, and was the way to „_ other islands, and from the islands you might pass through the whole of thfe opposite continent... | |
 | Plato - 1875 - 738 Seiten
...which you call the pillars of Heracles ; the island was larger than Libya and Asia put together, and 25 was the way to other islands, and from the islands you might pass to the whole of the opposite continent which surrounded the true ocean ; for this sea which is within... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - 1879 - 826 Seiten
...you call the columns of Heracles [the modern Straits of Gibraltar] ; the island was larger than Lybia and Asia put together, and was the way to other islands, and from the islands you might pass to the whole of the opposite continent which surrounded the true ocean ; for this sea which is within... | |
 | Ignatius Donnelly - 1882 - 516 Seiten
...navigable; and there was an island situated in front of the straits which you call the Columns of Heracles: the island was larger than Libya and Asia put together,...continent which surrounded the true ocean; for this sen which is within the Straits of Heracles is only a harbor, having a narrow entrance, but that other... | |
 | Ignatius Donnelly - 1883 - 482 Seiten
...an island " (Atlantis) " situated in front of the straits which you call the Columns of Hercules ; the island was larger than Libya and Asia put together, and was the way to ot/ier islands, and from the islands you niir/ht pass through the whole of the opposite continent,"... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1885 - 362 Seiten
...statement appears — that the island " was the way to the other islands, and from the islands уогг might pass through the whole of the opposite continent which surrounded the true ocean." Plato believed that the earth was a sphere, and that the ocean, of whose extent nothing was known,... | |
 | William J. Cassidy - 1887 - 392 Seiten
...situated in front of the straits which you call the columns of Heracles. The island was larger than Lybia and Asia put together, and was the way to other islands,...whole of the opposite continent which surrounded the ocean; for this sea which is within the Straits of Heracles is only a harbor, having a narrow entrance;... | |
 | S. F. Walker - 1887 - 224 Seiten
...before our era the Chinese made use of the magnetic needle. Plato had knowledge of America. He says: "From the islands you might pass through the whole...opposite continent which surrounded the true ocean." At first the needle was floated in a cup of water, and so the compass was called Hercules' cup; and... | |
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