The geographical ideas which prevailed at the time Columbus started in search of Cathay may be most readily gathered from two contemporary globes, the one known as the Laon globe because it was picked up in 1860 at a curiosity shop in that town, the other produced at Nuremberg in 1492 by ...
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Although it is still quite undeveloped, La Gomera was actually Christopher Columbus’ last port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean and discovering the Americas in 1492. Its capital San Sebastian contains a few sites relating to his voyage, as well as some brilliant black sand beaches. Fr...
Seville is home to many beautiful and important historic landmarks, chief of which is the grand Cathedral of Seville, where it is believed that Christopher Columbus is buried. Other significant buildings include the Real Alcazar, an extravagant Moorish palace with luxurious gardens and a room where...
aFacing page: The first portolan chart to show Columbus's discoveries in the New World was made by a navigator who shipped aboard the Nina on Columbus’s second voyage in 1493-94. Like the rest of the crew, Juan de La Cosa was made to swear that Cuba was part of Asia’s main¬...
aItalian navigator, has four times the sea voyage discovered the American continent, opened a route across the Atlantic to the Americas, said that the correctness of the earth sphere. Old World and New World for the link. Columbus, Ohio, named after the capital to another. To him in 1492...
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Treaty of Tordesillas, (June 7, 1494), agreement betweenSpainandPortugalaimed at settling conflicts over lands newly discovered or explored byChristopher Columbusand other late 15th-century voyagers. In 1493, after reports of Columbus’s discoveries had reached them, the Spanish rulersFerdinandandIsabel...
geographic knowledge was profoundly increased during the 15th and 16th centuries. The great discoveries of Columbus, da Gama, Vespucci, Cabot, Magellan, and others gradually transformed theworld mapsof those days. “Modern” maps were added to later editions of Ptolemy. The earliest was a map of...