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... navigation manuals , instructions to pilots , logs and rutters has come down to us from this early period , and again none from the fifteenth century ' . That there must have been maps is apparent when we recall the allusions to them in ...
... navigation manuals , instructions to pilots , logs and rutters has come down to us from this early period , and again none from the fifteenth century ' . That there must have been maps is apparent when we recall the allusions to them in ...
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... navigation and conquests exceed those of Menelaus and Hanno of Carthage and Eudoxus , greatly praised and glorified by ancient writers , as of all the kings and princes who preceded you . For in a short space of time your Highness ...
... navigation and conquests exceed those of Menelaus and Hanno of Carthage and Eudoxus , greatly praised and glorified by ancient writers , as of all the kings and princes who preceded you . For in a short space of time your Highness ...
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... navigation ; we must rely on the discoveries which at great toil and expense the aforesaid princes ordered to be ... navigation of the Ethiopias of Guinea and of India and other parts ; so that if time destroys the memory of this ...
... navigation ; we must rely on the discoveries which at great toil and expense the aforesaid princes ordered to be ... navigation of the Ethiopias of Guinea and of India and other parts ; so that if time destroys the memory of this ...
Contents
The Second Book describing the discoveries | 103 |
The Third Book concerning the discoveries of King | 139 |
The Fourth Book containing the discoveries | 163 |
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