Christopher Columbus: His Life and His Work

· 1902

Genoa, 1.--Place of Birth, 2.--Time of Birth, 4.--Family, 6. --Early Studies, 7.--Early Maritime Experience, 9.--Piratical Expeditions, 10.--Voyage to Africa, 11.--Voyage to Iceland, 12.-- Experience as Bookseller and Mapmaker, 14.--Removal to Portugal, 16. --Marriage, 17.--Children, 19.--Commercial Speculation, 21.-- Extent of his Experience, 21.--Theory of the Sphericity of the Earth, 23.--Progress of the Idea, 25.--Cardinal d’Ailly’s _Imago Mundi_, 27.--Causes of Delay, 27.--Discoveries by the Norsemen, 28.-- Toscanelli’s Letters, 29.--General Approaches to the Discovery, 32. Necessity of Assistance, 34.--Improbability that he applied to Genoa and Venice, 35.--Applications to Portugal, E…

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