The Fatherland: (1450-1700) : showing the part it bore in the discovery, exploration and development of the western continent with special reference to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; ptIof a narrative and critical history, prepared at the reque . e. Hamb. 1892 The old imperial city of Augsburg has thus far failed to receive in his-tory the proper credit due to its former greatness and its position in the<:ommercial world. The same is true of the German merchants: theyhave ever been deprived of the honor due them for their sagacity andenterprise in many brilliant epochs when they control
The Fatherland: (1450-1700) : showing the part it bore in the discovery, exploration and development of the western continent with special reference to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; ptIof a narrative and critical history, prepared at the reque . e. Hamb. 1892 The old imperial city of Augsburg has thus far failed to receive in his-tory the proper credit due to its former greatness and its position in the<:ommercial world. The same is true of the German merchants: theyhave ever been deprived of the honor due them for their sagacity andenterprise in many brilliant epochs when they controlled a large portionof the trade of the world. This praise and credit is usually accorded totheir rivals. (Arthur Kleinschmidt: Augusbur^ und Niirnberg utidihreHaiidels Fiirshn. Kassel. 1881.) 8o The Pennsylvania-German Society. after the discovery of tiie straits between the main land and Terra del Fnego, whereby the bounds of the hemisphere were defined, fell, for the time being, to the lot of the Fugger establishment. Here again Germanlearning and ingenuityhad asserted itself, as itwas by the aid of MartinBehaims charts ^^^ thatMagellan was enabled tofind and sail throughthe straits which nowbear his name, and thuscircumnavigate theworld.^^. ^ In the early printed accounts, the Straits are frequently calledFretuin MarHni Bo he mi. See Cosmographia disciplina. Basil 1561, 4toand Ludg. Bat. 1636 i6mo Edit, tert, Cap. ii, p. 22. Also DiplomatischeGeschichte. Gotha 1801, p. 82 et seq. ^ Die Verdienste Martin Behainis (Dresden, 1866, i p. 61. See alsoHerrera and Pigafetta. Losung der Behaim Frage; Gelcicli, Hamburg1892, p. 65 et seq.
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