The Writings of John Fiske; The Discovery of America Volume 2 (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...Russia by way of the White Sea; and in 1556 the Muscovy Company received its charter, and Sebastian Cabot was appointed its governor. He seems to have died in London in 1557, or soon afterwards. 1 Peter Martyr, dec. iii. lib. vi. fol. 55. Navarrete, Biblioteca maritima, torn. ii. p. 699. Winsor, Narr. and Crit. Hist., vol. iii. p. 6. The life of the younger Cabot thus extended over the whole of the period during which Europeans were gradually awakening to pe-jties the astounding fact that the western caK1 by th- r 1 A 1 i rapid accu-coasts or the Atlantic were not the muianonof coasts of Asia, but of a new conti-Ieo, r?p."cal m facts in the nent, the existence of which had never sixteenth cen-been suspected by any human being, n except in the unheeded guess of Strabo cited in a previous chapter.1 The sixty years following 1497 saw new geographical facts accumulate much faster than geographical theory could interpret them, as the series of old maps reproduced in the present volume will abundantly show. By the end of that time the revolution in knowledge had become so tremendous, and men were carried so far away from the old point of view, that their minds grew confused as to the earlier stages by which the change had been effected. Hence the views and purposes ascribed to the Cabots by writers in the middle of the sixteenth century have served only to perplex the subject in the minds of later historians. In Ramusio's collection of voyages an anonymous 1 See above, p. 44. writer puts into the mouth of Sebastian Cabot more or less autobiographical narrative, in which there are almost as many blunders as lines.1 In this narrative the death of John Cabot is placed before 1496, and Sebastian is said to have conducted the first voyage in that year....

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...Russia by way of the White Sea; and in 1556 the Muscovy Company received its charter, and Sebastian Cabot was appointed its governor. He seems to have died in London in 1557, or soon afterwards. 1 Peter Martyr, dec. iii. lib. vi. fol. 55. Navarrete, Biblioteca maritima, torn. ii. p. 699. Winsor, Narr. and Crit. Hist., vol. iii. p. 6. The life of the younger Cabot thus extended over the whole of the period during which Europeans were gradually awakening to pe-jties the astounding fact that the western caK1 by th- r 1 A 1 i rapid accu-coasts or the Atlantic were not the muianonof coasts of Asia, but of a new conti-Ieo, r?p."cal m facts in the nent, the existence of which had never sixteenth cen-been suspected by any human being, n except in the unheeded guess of Strabo cited in a previous chapter.1 The sixty years following 1497 saw new geographical facts accumulate much faster than geographical theory could interpret them, as the series of old maps reproduced in the present volume will abundantly show. By the end of that time the revolution in knowledge had become so tremendous, and men were carried so far away from the old point of view, that their minds grew confused as to the earlier stages by which the change had been effected. Hence the views and purposes ascribed to the Cabots by writers in the middle of the sixteenth century have served only to perplex the subject in the minds of later historians. In Ramusio's collection of voyages an anonymous 1 See above, p. 44. writer puts into the mouth of Sebastian Cabot more or less autobiographical narrative, in which there are almost as many blunders as lines.1 In this narrative the death of John Cabot is placed before 1496, and Sebastian is said to have conducted the first voyage in that year....

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July 2012

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246 x 189 x 6mm (L x W x T)

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110

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978-1-154-33283-4

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9781154332834

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