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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Soule, Pierre 1802- (search)
railroads, would ultimately prove a source of greater wealth to the Spanish people than that opened to their vision by Cortez. Their prosperity would date from the ratification of the treaty of cession. France has already constructed continuous lines of railways from Havre, Marseilles, Valenciennes, and Strasbourg, via Paris, to the Spanish frontier, and anxiously awaits the day when Spain shall find herself in a condition to extend these roads through her northern provinces to Madrid, Seville, Cadiz, Malaga, and the frontiers of Portugal. The object once accomplished, Spain would become a centre of attraction for the travelling world, and secure a permanent and profitable market for her various productions. Her fields, under the stimulus given to industry by remunerating prices, would teem with cereal grain, and her vineyards would bring forth a vastly increased quantity of choice wines. Spain would speedily become, what a bountiful Providence intended she should be, one
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ulloa, Antonio de 1716- (search)
Ulloa, Antonio de 1716- Naval officer; born in Seville, Jan. 12, 1716; entered the Spanish navy in 1733 and became lieutenant in 1735; came to the United States as governor of Louisiana in 1766, but was forced to leave because he failed to win over the colonists to Spain. He had command of a fleet which was sent to the Azores, with sealed orders to proceed to Havana and join an expedition against Florida. He neglected to open his orders and was tried by court-martial in 1780, and acquitted. He died on the island of Leon, July 3, 1795.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
erica......1510 Diego Velasquez subjugates Cuba and founds Havana......1511 Juan Ponce de Leon discovers Florida......March 27, 1512 Vespucci dies at Seville, Spain, aged sixty-one years......1512 Vasco Nuñez Balboa, crossing the isthmus of Darien, discovers the Pacific and takes possession of it for the King of Spain,vigator of his time. Discovers the river La Plata, South America,......January, 1516 [Killed by Indians on that river.] Las Casas, Bartholomew, born in Seville, Spain, in 1474; died in Spain, July, 1566. Accompanies Columbus to America, 1493, and during the next fifty years crosses the Atlantic fourteen times in the intere gave the name Pacific. He was killed at one of the Philippine Islands, by the natives, April 17, 1521. Only one of his ships, under Sebastian del Cano, reached Seville (the first ship to circumnavigate the globe)......Sept. 8, 1522 Verazzano, Giovanni de, Florentine navigator; born near Florence in 1470; died either at Newfou
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Urdaneta, Adres 1499- (search)
Urdaneta, Adres 1499- Navigator; born in Villafranca, Guipuzcoa, Spain, in 1499. Urged by the council of the Indies, Philip II. decided, in 1558, to undertake the conquest of the Philippine Islands, and appointed Urdaneta chief pilot of the expedition, which left Acapulco Nov. 21, 1564, under Miguel Lopez de Legaspi. The latter took possession of the island of Cebu and conquered Mindoro. Urdaneta returned to Mexico, where he died June 3, 1568. He wrote several memoirs and letters which are preserved in the archives of the Indies in Seville.
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 22: (search)
tant coast of Andalusia, whose name is synonymous with all that is lovely in scenery, or beautiful in woman. One almost fancies as he looks upon it, that he hears the amorous tinkle of the guitar, and inhales the fragrance of the orange grove. Seville is its chief city, and who has not read the couplet, Quien no ha visto Sevilla No ha visto maravilla, which may be rendered into the vernacular thus: He who hath not Seville seen, Hath not seen wonders, I ween. The landscape, still green in Seville seen, Hath not seen wonders, I ween. The landscape, still green in mid-winter, was dotted with villas and villages, all white, contrasting prettily with the groves in which they were embowered. Casting the eye forward, it rested upon the picturesque hills of the far-famed wine district of Xeres, with its vineyards, wine-presses, and pack-mules. Some famous old wine estates were pointed out to us by the pilot. We ran through a fleet of shipping before reaching our anchorage off the main quay, the latter lined on both sides with market-boats; and as much m
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
lary Sphere.Micrometer. Artificial Horizon.Mural Circle. Astrolabe.Optical Instruments. Astrometer.Orbit-Sweeper. Astroscope.Orrery. Azimuth Circle.Planetarium. Azimuth Dial.Reflecting Circle. Back-staff.Refraction Circle. Collimator.Telescope. Comet-Seeker.Tellurian. Compass.Transit. Cosmolabe.Universal Instrument. Dipleidoscope.Zenith Sector. Dip Sector.Zenith Tube. Equatorial Telescope. In Europe, the Arabs were the first to build observatories; the Giralda, or Tower of Seville, was erected under the superintendence of Geber the mathematician, about A. D. 1196, for that purpose. After the expulsion of the Moors it was turned into a belfry, the Spaniards not knowing what else to do with it. The same people mistook the vertical gnomons of Quito — beneath the line — for idols, and upset them, crossing themselves devoutly. Of the obelisks of Egypt, the round towers of Ireland, and the gnomons of Quito, the last is the least distinctly phallic. Native Observatory
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
ave it a yellow color, and the result — brass — was highly valued. Aristotle and Strabo refer to this earth, as do also Ambrosius, Bishop of Milan, fourth century; Primasius, Bishop of Adrumetum, in Africa, sixth century; and Isidore, Bishop of Seville, seventh century. These learned prelates mention an addition by which copper acquired a gold color. This was undoubtedly calamine. Albertus Magnus, A. D. 1280, seems to have suspected the truth; but it was reserved for Paracelsus, who died ter and brighter as years roll by, — tardy justice. Famous cannon of the world. In the eleventh century, if we may credit the chronicle of Alphonso VI., written by Pedro, bishop of Leon, the vessels of the king of Tunis, in the attack on Seville, had on board a number of iron pipes, out of which volumes of thundering fire were discharged. In the fourteenth century the references to the uses of cannon became common. Ferdinand took Gibraltar from the Moors by cannon, in 1308. Petrarc<
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
i in terms of unqualified esteem; he calls him a very good man, worthy of all confidence, and always inclined to render me service. The same good — will toward Vespucci is displayed by Fernando Colon, who wrote the Life of his father in 1535 in Seville, four years before his death, and who, with Juan Vespucci, a nephew of Amerigo's, was present at the astronomical junta of Badajoz, and at the proceedings respecting the possession of the Moluccas. The confusion of dates in the numerous versitheir father in 1492, in which it was to be decided what parts of the new continent were first seen by Columbus. In the course of this suit it was never pretended that he had preceded Columbus in the discovery of the continent. Amerigo died at Seville, February 22, 1512. In 1520 maps were extant, having in them the name of America, proposed by Hylacomylus in 1507. Las Casas, in treating on the subject in an unpublished work, the Historia general de las Indias, says that the statement that
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), O. (search)
e air from the range of pipes above it. In organs of the largest class as formerly constructed the operation of the keys was a work requiring, in addition to musical skill, a large amount of hard bodily labor. It is said that the performer on the great Haarlem organ was obliged to strip preparatory to commencing his work, and retired covered with perspiration at the end of the hour's performance. This is one of the largest instruments in Europe, having 60 stops and 8,000 pipes. One at Seville has 5,300 pipes. The expenditure of wind varying greatly, according to the series of notes produced, the tension of the air supply was very different at different times, causing a variation in the purity of the tone and difficulty in opening the valves when under high pressure. These difficulties were remedied by the pneumatic lever of Barker, in which small subsidiary bellows operated by the movement of the key are employed to depress the wires by which the valves are opened. Where an
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
d Magellan in discovering the Pacific Ocean, into which he sailed from the Straits of Magellan, November 28, 1520, and which he named the Pacific Ocean. He sailed across the Pacific, reached the Ladrones, was killed by mutineers; the vessel anchored at Tidore, November 8, 1521, having been at sea 27 months. Proportions of Ocean steamers. Sebastian de Elcano, Magellan's lieutenant, doubled the Cape of Good Hope, and on September 7, 1522, the San Vittoria anchored at St. Lucar, near Seville, Spain; the first circumnavigation of the earth. a, Baltimore, N. G. Lloyd's line. Length, 185 feet; beam, 29 feet; length to breadth, 6.38. b, Peruvian, Allan line. Length, 270 feet; beam, 38 feet; length to breadth, 7.11. c, Moravian, Allan line. Length, 290 feet; beam, 39 feet; length to breadth, 7.44. d, Leipzig, N. G. Lloyd's line. Length, 290 feet; beam, 39 feet; length to breadth, 7.44. e, Minnesota, Williams & Guion line. Length, 332 feet; beam, 42 feet; length to br
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