The Continent of America: Its Discovery and Its Baptism. An Essay on the Nomenclature of the Old Continents. A Critical and Bibliographical Inquiry Into the Naming of America and Into the Growth of the Cosmography of the New World; Together with an Attempt to Establish the Landfall of Colombus on Watling Island, and the Subsequent Discoveries and Explorations on the Main Land by Americus VespuciusMeridan, 1971 - 346 pagine |
Sommario
INTRODUCTORY | 3 |
The Discovery of the New World | 21 |
CHAPTER II | 27 |
CHAPTER III | 31 |
METHODS OF IDENTIFYING GUANAHANI | 53 |
WATLING ISLAND THE TRUE GUANAHANI | 57 |
THE EARLY DAYS OF VESPUCIUS | 61 |
CHAPTER II | 65 |
CHAPTER V | 145 |
CHAPTER VIII | 159 |
CHAPTER I | 169 |
THE UNIT OF MEASURE EMPLOYED BY THE ANCIENTS | 178 |
CHAPTER V | 186 |
CHAPTER VI | 189 |
CHAPTER I | 193 |
CHAPTER II | 199 |
CHAPTER IV | 75 |
CHAPTER V | 79 |
The First Voyage of Vespucius | 84 |
The Baptismal Font of America | 111 |
ST DIÉ IN LORRAINE | 113 |
THE INCEPTION OF THE WORK | 125 |
CHAPTER IV | 209 |
CHAPTER VII | 219 |
THE WALDSEEMÜLLER PTOLEMY OF 1513 | 229 |
THE FIRST MAP WITH THE NAME OF AMERICA | 239 |
CHAPTER XII | 249 |
THE STATUE OF AMERICA | 249 |
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