Inside Out Library · Explore

Narrative and critical history of America (1884)

Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897, Maclean, John, 1851-1928, association, MacLean, Harrison John (autograph) · Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Co. · leaf 122

An illustration from Narrative and critical history of America, 1884, leaf 122
;Reischs Margarita philosophica (1535), p. 1416:DAvezacs Waltzemiiller, p. 64. THE MAPS OF THE EARLIEST DISCOVERIES. 97 pupil of Regiomontanus. bad somewhat changed the old form of the astrolal)e in adaptingit for use on shipboard. This was in 14S4 at Lisbon, and liehaims improvement wasdoubtless… … L.ATER ASTROLABE.^ This cut follows an engraving {A/<i^. ofAmer. His!., iii. 17S) after a photograph of oneused by Champlain, which bears the Parismakers date of 1603. There is another cut ofit in Weises Discaieriss of America, p. 58. Hav-ing been lost by Champlain in Canada in 1613, itwas…

Cartography

Internet Archive · University of Toronto, Robarts Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from Narrative and critical history of America

More like this