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Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, The offer of the discovery of the West Indies by Christopher Columbus to king Henry the seventh in the yeere 1488 the 13 of February: with the kings acceptation of the offer, & the cause whereupon hee was deprived of the same: recorded in the thirteenth chapter of the history of Don Fernand Columbus of the life and deeds of his father Christopher Columbus. (search)
The offer of the discovery of the West Indies by Christopher Columbus to king Henry the seventh in the yeere 1488 the 13 of February: with the kings acceptation of the offer, & the cause whereupon hee was deprived of the same: recorded in the thirteenth chapter of the history of Don Fernand Columbus of the life and deeds of his father Christopher Columbus. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS fearing least if the king of Castile in like maner (as the king of Portugall had done) should not condescend unto his enterprise, he should be inforced to offer the same againe to some other prince, & so much time should be spent therein, sent into England a certaine brother of his which he had with him, whose name was Bartholomew Columbus, who, albeit he had not the Latine tongue, yet neverthelesse was a man of experience and skilfull in Sea causes, and could very wel make sea cards & globes, and other instruments belonging to that profession, as he was instructed by his brother. Wherfore after that Bartholome
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Columbus, Christopher 1435-1536 (search)
and cosmographers was assembled at Salamanca to consider the project. They decided that the scheme was visionary, unscriptural, and irreligious, and the navigator was in danger of arraignment before the tribunal of the Inquisition. For seven years longer the patient navigator waited, while the Columbus before the council. Spanish monarchs were engaged with the Moors in Granada, during which time Columbus served in the army as a volunteer. Meanwhile the King of Portugal had invited him (1488) to return, and Henry VII. had also invited him by letter to come to the Court of England, giving him encouraging promises of aid. But Ferdinand and Isabella treated him kindly, and he remained in Spain until 1491, when he set out to lay his projects before Charles VIII. of France. On his way, at the close of a beautiful October day, he stopped at the gate of the Franciscan monastery of Santa Maria de Rabida, near the port of Palos, in Andalusia, and asked for refreshment for his boy, Dieg
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
of the latter enabled him to rectify imperfections and form an enduring, life-like copy. The names of Rhaecus and Theodorus of Samos are also noted in this connection. After being neglected for centuries, the art was revived by Verocchio (1422-88) and by others: the immediate incentive being to obtain copies of the specimens of ancient art which were being disinterred and discovered. The sovereigns of France also took this means to add to the artistic interest and beauty of their capitals Aesop's Fables, by Caxton, first book with numbered pages, 1474. Aldus cast the Greek alphabet and printed a Greek book, 1476. Aldus introduced italics, 1476. The Pentateuch in Hebrew, 1482. Homer in folio, by Demetrius of Florence, 1488. The Complutensian Polyglot of Cardinal Ximenes, in 1517. The exact conformity of different copies of the book taken by Faustus for sale in Paris gave rise to the report of his being in league with Satan, and was the origin of the popular st
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
, May 26, 1874, wire. Reaping machines. （Principles of Action.) Reaping machines. （Principles of Action.) Reaping machines. （Principles of Action) Reaping machines. （Principles of Action.) Fig. 3247, page 1488, is an adaptation of a steam-engine to reaping and mowing. The implement consists of a boiler and steam-engine, erected on a light wrought-iron girder-frame, the whole being carried on four wheels, of which the two hind wheels are utilized for rying the cutting apparatus free of the ground. So far as the mowing-machines and reapers are identical, they have been referred to under the former head. See chart of mowing-machine motions, Plate XXX., and the classification of mowers, page 1488. The drawing and cutting portions of the apparatus are described in the classification referred to, and are illustrated on Plates XXXI., XXXII., XXXIII. For the distinctive features of a reaper, see the following:— Classification of Reap