Essay on the Life of Prince Henry the Navigator


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The Prince Henry may be taken as a symbol of wishes and efforts of anonymous navigators, cartographers, of cosmographers, merchants and adventurers who helped modern man to build new dimensions to the perspective of the world. A prince of remarkable qualities that worked in favor of the Kingdom and of the Catholic religion, with projects, subject to successes and failures, stubborn in realizing their desires, and a man deeply marked by the conditions and conveniences of life of his time. It is to mention that the author was awarded with the prize Henriquino, in 1960, in Portugal.




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Prince Henry 'the Navigator'


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Studie over de centrale rol die prins Hendrik de Zeevaarder (1394-1460) speelde bij de eerste Portugese ontdekkingsreizen.










The Story of Maps


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"An important and scholarly work; bringing together much information available heretofore only in scattered sources. Easily readable." — Gerald I. Alexander, F.R.G.S. Cartographer, Map Division, New York Public Library. The first authoritative history of maps and the men who made them. The historical coverage of this volume is immense: from the first two centuries A.D. — Strabo and Ptolemy — through the end of the 19th century, with some discussion of 20th-century developments. 86 illustrations. Extensive notes and bibliography. "Mr. Brown felicitously marries scholarship to narrative and dramatic skill." — Henry Steele Commager.