The Library of Original Sources (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Oliver J. Thatcher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330306171 ISBN 13: 9781330306178

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Library of Original Sources

Of all the islands and continents that I Should discover and gain, and that I might hereafter discover and gain in the Ocean Sea, and that my eldest son should succeed, and so on from generation to genera tion for ever.

I left the city of Granada on the 12th day of May, in the same year Of 1492, being Saturday, and came to the town Of Palos, which is a support; where I equipped three vessels, well suited for such serv ice; and departed from that port, well supplied with provisions and with many sailors, on the 3d day of August of the same year, being Friday, half an hour before sunrise, taking the route to the islands of Canaria, belonging to your Highnesses, which are in the said Ocean Sea, that I might thence take my departure for navigating until I should arrive at the Indies, and give the letters Of your Highnesses to those princes, so as to comply with my orders. As part of my duty I thought it well to write an account Of all the voyage very punctually, noting from day to day all that I Should do and see, and that should happen, as will be seen further on. Also, Lords Princes, I resolved to describe each night what passed in the day, and to note each day how I navigated at night. I propose to construct a new chart for navigating, on which I shall delineate all the sea and lands of the Ocean in their proper positions under their bearings; and further, I propose to prepare a book, and to put down all as it were in a picture, by latitude from the equator, and western longitude. Above all, I shall have accomplished much, for I shall forget Sleep, and shall work at the business Of navigation, that so the service may be performed; all which will entail great labour.

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Excerpt from The Library of Original Sources Modern times, though heralded by Guttenberg's invention of printing in 1438, and by the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the resulting diffusion of Greek scholars throughout western Europe, were actually ushered in by Columbus's discovery of the western hemisphere, Magellan's trip round the world, the Copernican theory, and the great revolution in religion. The discovery of Columbus in effect laid open a new world before the eyes of Europe as truly as if some one should now open up a route to Mars. Five years later Vasco da Gama found the way round the cape of Good Hope to India. In 1519 Magellan crossed the Pacific, and after his death his men completed the circumnavigation of the globe. This proved forever the hypothesis of the rotundity of the earth. These three expeditions, taken together, metamorphosed the geographical ideas of Europe, opened a vast field for effort, weakened the church fathers as scientific authorities, and broke the spell of self-complacent, all-knowing ignorance that had held Europe in its thrall. Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa in 1435. In his youth he was much interested in geographical studies, and he later made a number of voyages on the Mediterranean under his uncle and cousin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1330306171
• ISBN 13: 9781330306178
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 474