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 . Sea-Going Vessel, at Close of XV Century. It is not known to a certainty whether there wereany German adventurers in the original Columbus *^ As a matter of fact, all the great navigators, Columbus, Gama,Magalhaens, owe their success to the improved German instruments ofnavigation. (Ruge, Berlin, iSSi, p. io6.) 62 The Pemisylvania-Gernian Society.
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 . Sea-Going Vessel, at Close of XV Century. It is not known to a certainty whether there wereany German adventurers in the original Columbus *^ As a matter of fact, all the great navigators, Columbus, Gama,Magalhaens, owe their success to the improved German instruments ofnavigation. (Ruge, Berlin, iSSi, p. io6.) 62 The Pemisylvania-Gernian Society. expedition or not/^ Of the many private expeditions,however, whicli left Spain ^^ and Portugal after theyear 1495, the greater number were either projectedor fitted out by the merchants of Germany or theHanseatic League, and German adventurers bore nominor part. It is a curious fact that both Columbus and Ves-pucci should die without knowing that they had dis-covered a new hemisphere;—both lived and died inthe firm belief that they had but found the extremeeastern point of Asia. ^ See foot note No. 6 supra.^* Winsor, vol. ii, p Compass Rose ®n de la Cosas Map,A. D. 1500. THE FE/NNSYLUANIA-CERnA/N SOCIETY.
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