Book/Printed Material Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ...
-
Image 1 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... Vee nee p aae Ted eee rh Bit tLe eee tenth Fee SAM OED br pnts BRE Leer fh ee Aa re BERG ear ocar eaten ae ahal ir iah athalyioay noe…- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 2 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ...- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 3 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ...- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 4 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ...- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 5 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL NOT ES VAG jt 3 By HENRY STEVENS cmp Fsa MA vale etc Fellow of the Royal Geog Zoological Societies of London Foreign Member of the Amer Antiq Society…- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 6 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... a 2- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 7 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL NOTES wh ON THE EARLIEST DISCOVERIES IN AMERICA 14531539 WITH COMMENTS ON THE EARLIEST CHARTS AND MAPS THE MIS TAKES OF THE EARLY NAVIGATORS THE BLUNDERS OF THE GEOGRAPHERS…- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 8 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1869 by HENRY STEVENS In the Clerks Office of the District Court of the District of Connecticut A few copies printed for presentsN…- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 9 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... To JAMES LENOX WHOSE CONSTANT CORRESPONDENCE FOR MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS RESPECTING THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE EAST AS WELL AS THE WEST HAS ENCOURAGED THE WRITER AND STIMULATED HIS INVESTIGATIONS THESE PAGES…- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 10 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... Pe- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 11 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... EXPLANATORY Notwithstanding the assiduity of his researches and the pains he has taken to extricate facts from the confusion of different authors as what is true does not always appear possible and…- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 12 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... 8 Recently vast stores of material of American history have been brought to light Old books and maps have turned up Bibliography has become an exact science Documents are scrutinized anew as…- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 13 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... 9 cently the labors of Kunitsmann in Munich of Santarem and Jomard in Paris of Ghillany in Nuremberg of Rawdon Brown in Venice of Bergenroth in Spain have brought to light valu…- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 14 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... 10 Kohl could have done so much and so well even from his point of view in the short time allowed him But Still the writer does not find his cravings for…- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 15 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... 11 And jirst The Portolano or marine chart of Juan de la Cosa made by him at Puerto de Santa Maria near Cadiz in 1500 Plate I The original bought at a…- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 16 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... 12 is mere guess work Third that the discoveries of the Cabots and Cortereals are not properly laid down and that the coast line does not resemble that from Cape Race westward…- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 17 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... 13 the sands Columbus reached another place which he named Hvan gelista Here from the mast head one might see coasts to the north the Bay of Cortes and the Cayos de…- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 18 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... 14 The answer to the second objection as to the American coast line from the west of Cuba to Bacalaos is simply that La Cosa intended that line for Asia In 1500…- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 19 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... 15 has he done with the well known part of the old Continent Furthermore where are Zipangu and the islands of the Hastern Archipelago described by Marco Polo and so ardently sought…- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 20 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... 16 the imperfect ones generally in use The indications of lati tude and longitude are abundant and there is a good scale both at the top and the bottom of the chart…- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 21 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... 17 in 1515 of Apian and Schoner in 1520 of Bordone in 1521 of Lawrence Fries in 1522 of Orontius Fine in 1581 and of Sebastian Muenster in the Grynaeus of 1532…- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 22 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... 18 of St Lawrence and north of it La Cosas testimony is strong nor does Sebastian Cabots own map made in 1544 said to have been engraved by Clement Adams containing the…- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 23 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... 19 ber of that board himself A little later rising in honors and salary he became in 1518 the Pilot Major of Spain and in 1524 was deputed to preside over the…- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 24 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... 20 Woods late President of Bowdoin College has on the anvil as already announced for the Maine Historical Societys next vol ume an original unpublished manuscript of Richard Hakluyt of the highest…- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 25 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL NOTES 1453816530 ___ ee __ A retrospect of four centuries with a rapid glance at the progress of modern discovery exploration and invention will probably serve as an appropriate…- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 26 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... 22 the spices but the routes of commerce thither via Venice and Genoa by the Red Sea Egypt the Nile Arabia Asia Minor the Black and Caspian Seas through Persia and Tartary…- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 27 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... 23 igator had still ten years to live to carry out his great schemes of discovery and exploration of the western coast of Africa He was an ambitious student of geography history…- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 28 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... 24 j matics astronomy and navigation had grown with their growth and developed with marvelous rapidity The press had spread broadcast the learning of the ancients The secrets of the earth were…- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 29 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... 25 named after women Thus a little mountain town of France first gave aid and comfort to Columbus and afterwards a name to the New World As early as 1474 Paul Toscanelli…- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 30 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... 26 India over the Eastern Ocean via Sofala This theoretical dis covery of Covilham exactly coincided with the practical one of Dias All these events were but leading up to the grandest…- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 31 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... 27 flagging in his confidence questioned and ridiculed by com missions of geographers and scientific men without ever being able to penetrate the conservative ignorance of the learned and courtly or as…- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 32 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... 28 ous of the new short cut of Columbus which had been offered to her and refused protested against the position of this merid ian It was finally settled in the treaty…- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 33 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... 29 Hong Kong is nearly onethird more than Columbus had reck oned it from Spain to Japan The sensation produced throughout Europe by this discov ery of a short and direct route…- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 34 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... 50 On the 30th of May 1498 in his third voyage Columbus first touched the continent of America in Venezuela though some contend that Vespucci had anticipated him by nearly one year…- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 35 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... bl Bartholomew and his son Ferdinando who afterwards wrote a life of his father He explored the coasts of Central America from Truxillo in Honduras to Darien still looking for the Ganges…- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 36 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... 32 eries were collected and laid down in a beautiful copperplate map by Johann Ruysch a German who had probably visited the new found islands with the Cabots and knew well what…- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 37 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... 33 himself and the information he gathered from the Bristol men when he was with them in 14978 and the discoveries of the Cortereals Columbus had placed his discoveries in the Indian…- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 38 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... _ 34 the Hast were so recognized as they placed them and required no new general name but their names of particular localities such as Terra Nova and Bacalaos were adopted But…- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 39 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... 30 This was done without the knowledge of Vespucci and was never intended to interfere with the just rights and claims of Columbus The truth is there was then no other book…- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
-
Image 40 of Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... 36 its being Zipangu or part of the main land of Asia It was found to be a long narrow island extending east and west and not north and south like Zipangu…- Contributor: Stevens, Henry
- Date: 1869
About this Item
Title
- Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ...
Names
- Stevens, Henry, 1819-1886.
Created / Published
- New Haven : Office of the American Journal of Science ; London : Henry Stevens, 1869.
Headings
- - America--Discovery and exploration--Maps
- - America--Maps, Early
- - Early maps--Facsimiles
Notes
- - "Seventy-five copies printed for sale."
- - Added t.p., illus.
- - Also available in digital form.
Medium
- 54 p. : ill., fold. maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- E101 .S84
Library of Congress Control Number
- 03003161
OCLC Number
- 3558239
Online Format
- online text
- image