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 . Frisii. Antwp. 1584.) myself to incontrovertible facts alone, it will be seenthat when finally the dream of Columbus was real-ized, under the patronage of Ferdinand and Isabella,it was made possible only by the aid of three great passed the Equator, turned west and (by implication) found land, andthus discovered America. This claim, in the light o
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 . Frisii. Antwp. 1584.) myself to incontrovertible facts alone, it will be seenthat when finally the dream of Columbus was real-ized, under the patronage of Ferdinand and Isabella,it was made possible only by the aid of three great passed the Equator, turned west and (by implication) found land, andthus discovered America. This claim, in the light of modern investiga-tion, is not substantiated, as the passage referred to does not appear inthe German edition of the same year ; and on reference to the manu-script of the book (still preserved in Niirnberg) the passage is found tobe an interpolation written in a different hand. It seems likely to havebeen a perversion or misinterpretation of the voyage of Diego Cao downthe African coast in 1489, wherein he was accompanied by Behaim himself did not put the claim forward, at least in 1492,seems to be clear from the globe, which he made in that year, andwhich shows no indication of such a voyage. 6o The Pennsylvania-German J- > < <& a a ^ t:o !3 Q S Q g Sailing Craft of the Period. 6r factors, all of German origin: ^^ The astrolabe ofBehaim, the mariners compass from the old Germantown of Niirnberg, and the Bphemerides of JosephMiiller.
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