The Voyage of Columbus (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Taber, Charles A. M.) |
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Excerpt from The Voyage of Columbus The poem on the Voyage of Columbus was written after making many searching cruises while in the whaling service on that part of the Atlantic sailed over by Columbus while performing his famous voyage. In 1900 I rewrote the poem, and have made a few later additions. Meanwhile after reading the writings of recent authors, and commentators, I find while viewing the matter from a marine standpoint, that however well informed they may be on the literary side of the subject a portion of them have shown a disposition to depreciate Columbus, and that his discovery of the Western Continent was obtained from information gained from other persons instead of his own researches and superior comprehensiveness. For such reasons this explanatory introduction seems necessary to correct such erroneous impressions as may have been formed concerning the causes which led to the discovery of the New World. For instance, it has been suggested that had Columbus sailed on his voyage of discovery from England instead of a southern port in Spain he would have discovered land in a more northern latitude than the Bahama Islands, and so have changed the conditions that now prevail in North America. This supposition shows how little marine knowledge of the eastern Atlantic Columbus was supposed to have acquired after sailing over and studying for years that part of the ocean extending from Iceland to the coast of Guinea. Yet, we believe that Columbus after his long Atlantic experience would never have made the attempt to force his vessels westward against the stormy and adverse winds of the high latitudes when he knew well that a gentle easterly wind was blowing in the latitude of the Canary Islands. Besides, it appears from the courses he steered while on his western search, that he expected lo make his discoveries near or in the tropical zone. In 1901 Henry Vignaud, "Secretary of U. S. Embassy, Paris," published a book in France entitled "Toscanelli and Columbus," which caused a wide discussion in regard to the genuineness of the letter said to have been written with an accompanying chart by Toscanelli the famous Florentine astronomer, and sent to the Portuguese Fernam Martins, Canon at Lisbon, and later on to Christopher Columbus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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