Researches Respecting Americus Vespucius, and His Voyages

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Charles C. Little & James Brown, 1850 - 221 páginas
 

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Página 121 - Colon, virum utique dignum et plurimum commendandum ac tanto negotio aptum, cum navigiis et hominibus ad similia instructis, non sine maximis laboribus et periculis ac expensis destinastis, ut terras firmas et insulas remotas et incognitas huiusmodi per mare ubi hactenus navigatum non fuerat, diligenter inquireret.
Página 42 - Columbus was the first European who set foot in the new world which he had discovered. He landed in a rich dress, and with a naked sword in his hand. His men followed, and kneeling down, they all kissed the ground which they had so long desired to see. They next erected a crucifix...
Página 121 - Columbum, virum utique dignum et plurimum commendandum, ac tanto negotio aptum, cum navigiis et hominibus ad similia instructis, non sine maximis laboribus et periculis ac...
Página 54 - In fact, depopulation was loudly complained of at the end of the 15th and beginning of the 16th centuries, and a redundancy of population was acknowledged at the end of the 16th.
Página 80 - Nova orbis descriptio ac nova Oceani navigatio qua Lisbona ad Indicum pervenitur pelagus , Marco Beneventano monacho Caelestino edita. » Le chapitre i 4 porte : « Terra Sanctae Crucis decrescit usque ad latitudinem 37° austr.
Página 125 - Portuguese had exalted the imaginations of all men, so that savans, statesmen, merchants as wett a* common sailors, all talked of discoveries, and all aspired to add to the number of them ; likewise, that there was no lack of charlatans in the cause of navigation, nor of impostors, who spread abroad their fabulous accounts, to gain credit with the merchants, by flattering their avarice, and piqued the curiosity of the common people, always so greedy of novelty. They even wormed their way into courts,...
Página 116 - ... his fabulous voyages of 1501 and 1503. 3. That Italian, and even Tuscan writers, scrupulously honest, and contemporaries too of the event, have universally declared that Columbus was the first who discovered the new continent. And 4. We have shown, by a great many documents, and by critical analysis, the inconsistencies of Vespucius's narratives, and of the letters attributed to him. We have cited more than one hundred and fifty authorities, authors who wrote on voyages and discoveries, some...
Página 199 - first voyage, that is, the one made under the command of Hojeda, when this captain did not go to the new continent till subsequently to himself. Did he not know that such a publication could do no harm to his glory, since it was impossible for him to foresee that facts would be falsified after his death.
Página 70 - Introductio, insuper quatuor Americi Vespucii navigationes,' which name Apian, Vadianus and Gamers have since widely spread through Strasburg, Friburg and Vienna, while the prodigious celebrity of the little book of Apian has propagated the evil, by innumerable editions, in Holland and elsewhere." But from whatever source, and with whatsoever design, originated the appellation of America, contemporary historians did not so entitle the new continent, nor is the name inscribed upon any chart or map...
Página 116 - ... the reputed Portuguese expeditions of Vespucius, in 1501 and 1503. His attacks, impugning, countervailing or destroying, are scattered throughout two hundred pages, and resemble a volley of small shot, poured in from all points. The effect of the discharge is thus detailed in his own report, p. 116. "We have demonstrated, in the preceding chapters, 1. That not the slightest trace of Vespucius, nor a single document concerning him, or his problematical voyages of 1501 and 1503, is to be found...

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