Historical and Geographical Notes on the Earliest Discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ...Office of the American Journal of Science, 1869 - 54 Seiten |
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Historical and Geographical Notes on the Earliest Discoveries in America ... Henry Stevens Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2020 |
Historical and Geographical Notes on the Earliest Discoveries in America ... Henry Stevens Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2020 |
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Africa Alvarado Asiatic Ayllon Bacalaos Brazil Cabo Cape Race Cape Verde Cathay coast line Columbus commerce Congress of Badajos continent Cortereals Cortes Cosa's chart Cuba Darien dated discovered discoveries early East Eastern Asia expedition explored the coast fac-simile fleet Florida German geographers globe Gomez Grijalva Gulf of Ganges Gulf of Mexico Gulf of St Hispaniola India Indies island Isthmus of Tehuantepec John Cabot John Ruysch Juan Kohl laid land Lelewel line of demarcation Lisbon Loaysa Mangi Marco Polo Martyr's map Moluccas Mundus Novus names navigators North America Orontius Pacific Panama Paria passage Peter Martyr pilots Pinzon Polisacus Ponce de Leon Portugal Portuguese printed probably Ptolemy returned Richard Hakluyt river route Ruysch sailed Schoner Sebastian Cabot second voyage Seville ships side of Cuba South Sea Spain Spaniards Spanish St Dié Straits of Magellan Tehuantepec Terra de Cuba thither trade Venice Vespucci writer Yucatan Zipangu
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Seite 27 - Moors, divided our globe into two parts, by a line of demarcation passing from pole to pole, one hundred leagues west of the Azores and Cape Verde islands...
Seite 18 - I have seen the map which the discoverer has made, who is another Genoese like Columbus, and who has been in Seville and in Lisbon asking assistance for his discoveries. The people of Bristol have, for the last seven years, sent out every year two, three, or four light ships in search of the Island of Brazil and the Seven Cities, according to the fancy of this Genoese.
Seite 24 - Provost of the ancient Ecclesiastical College of St Die" in Lorraine, away up in the Vosges Mountains, in the remotest corner of France. This was on the very spot where, nearly a century later, in the Gymnasium within the same precincts, a confraternity of some half dozen earnest students, lovers of geography, of whom the poet Mathias Ringman was the soul, in a little work called...
Seite 41 - ... too remote and too dangerous for use. It was resolved, therefore, to seek for the supposed isthmian passage by a more thorough examination of the coasts of the Pacific. Accordingly, in 1522, four vessels having been built at Panama, Avila and the pilot Nino set out to explore the coast from the Bay of San Miguel to the Gulf of Fonseca, expecting to find at the latter place a passage by water through to the Gulf of Honduras. The same year Cortes, after having subjected the mighty barbaric empire...
Seite 34 - But it should not be forgotten that the chart is intended to represent, on a plain, the entire globe as far as known in 1500. There is a broad green border above and beyond the Ganges, showing that the northeast of Asia is terra incognita. But La Cosa had the same authorities up to the Polisacus river and bay, in latitude 52° north that Behaim had for his globe made in 1492. Hence the two works agree remarkably well, but La Cosa, taking advantage of the seven years progress in geography has attempted...
Seite 39 - Sea) from the mountain tops of Panama, and soon after navigators began to realize that the land of spices was beyond another ocean, even more vast than the Atlantic itself. The beautiful name AMERICA now began to swallow up the conjunctives, to spread itself eventually all over the new hemisphere, by the same law that made the Libya of the Eomans succumb to its younger and more beautifully named daughter, AFRICA.
Seite 49 - ... passed, and four of the six ships reached the Moluccas ; but the story of their long, long sufferings is too long to be told here. In April, 1526, Sebastian Cabot, who had for years been the Pilot Major of Spain — said, however, to have been a better cosmographer than pilot — after long and ample preparations at Seville, sailed for the Moluccas via the Straits of Magellan, with four well-equipped ships, for the purpose of reinforcing and assisting the expedition of Loaysa. This expedition...
Seite 40 - ... under Magellan, a disaffected Portuguese gentleman who had served his country for five years in the Indies under Albuquerque, and understood well the secrets of the Eastern trade. In 1517, conjointly with his geographical and astronomical friend, Ruy Falerio, another unrequited Portuguese, he offered his services to the Spanish court, At the same time these two friends proposed not only to prove that the Moluccas were within the Spanish lines of demarcation, but to discover a passage thither...
Seite 49 - As early as 1526 or 1527, before the extent of these failures was known, it became apparent, if the commerce of the East was to flourish, it must be by some more direct communication. These great difficulties of the extreme North and South determined the Spaniards to explore the Isthmuses yet more thorougly. All the five routes from Darien to Tehuantepec, were spoken of then as now, with the view of constructing immediately a canal, road, or portage, deeming it safer and cheaper to tranship goods,...
Seite 27 - ... reach the East. But Time was working for him then, as it is now for Interoceanic Communication. The fortieth year from the fall of Constantinople, the fortyfifth of the age of Columbus, witnessed the death of Lorenzo de Medici ; but other suns were rising. Copernicus, in the far north, was in his twentieth year; Erasmus, his twenty -fifth; Cortez, his seventh ; and Luther, his tenth.