Voyages of the Elizabethan Seamen

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Excerpt from Voyages of the Elizabethan Seamen: Select Narratives From the Principal Navigations of HakluytIT was not until the great period of maritime discoveries which lasts from the middle of the fourteenth century to the middle of the seventeenth (1350 - 1650) was already well ad vanced, and the chief problems of geography had been solved, that Englishmen began to take part in the movement. The map of the world, as we have it at this day, had been con structed by adventurers of other nations. Until the thirteenth century, no advance in geographical knowledge had been made since the classical age. The philosophers of Oxford and Paris, and the merchants of the Hanse Towns and the Italian maritime republics, knew no more of geography than had been known to the Alexandrian philosophers and merchants a thousand years before. Even as late as the time of Columbus, the standard authority on geography continued to be Ptolemy, and it is on record that the two favourite authors of the discoverer of America were the famous geographer of Alexandria and the mendacious English traveller, Sir John Mandeville.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.