The discovery of America . Universalior CognitiJohann Ruyschs Map of the World, published August ^ A reduction of a part of the original map, in Ruyschs coni-cal projection, may be seen in Winsor, Narr. and Crit. Hist.,iv. 8. As that projection would be puzzling to most readers, Ihave reduced it to Mereators. An English translation of thevarious legends upon the map is here subjoined: — A. Here the ships compass loses its property, and no vessel?with iron on board is able to get away. MUNDUS NOV US. 116. Orbis Tabula. 13, 1508, reduced to Mercators B. This island was entu-ely burn
The discovery of America . Universalior CognitiJohann Ruyschs Map of the World, published August ^ A reduction of a part of the original map, in Ruyschs coni-cal projection, may be seen in Winsor, Narr. and Crit. Hist.,iv. 8. As that projection would be puzzling to most readers, Ihave reduced it to Mereators. An English translation of thevarious legends upon the map is here subjoined: — A. Here the ships compass loses its property, and no vessel?with iron on board is able to get away. MUNDUS NOV US. 116. Orbis Tabula. 13, 1508, reduced to Mercators B. This island was entu-ely burnt in 1456. [See above, p. 242.] C. The ships of Ferdinand, king of Spain, have come as faras here. [See above, p. 80.] D. Marco Polo says that 1,400 miles eastward from theport of Zaiton there is a very large island called Cipango,whose inhabitants are idolaters, and have their own king, 116 THE DISCOVERY OF AMEBIC A. and slender youth of two-and-twenty, who is apersonage of much importance in our ^e was a young man of remarkable Kiugmaun. promise, a native of Schlestadt, a littletown von the eastern slope of the Vosges mountainsin Alsace. His name was Matthias Ringmann,but in accordance with the prevailing fashion hewas more commonly known by a dog-Latin epithet,Philesius Vogesigena, in allusion to his birth-place. and are tributary to no one. Here is a great abundanceof gold and all sorts of gems. But as the islands discov-ered by the Spaniards occupy this spot, we ha
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