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Stevens, Henry, 1819-1886
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In 1478, the great geographical work of Ptolemy, with the twenty-seven beautiful copper plate maps, was printed at Bome, and about the same time many oth^ of the ancient historians, poets, philosophas, mathematicians, and astronomers saw the light The Imago Mundi was printed at Louvain, in 1488, and there still exists at Seville, Columbus' own copy, with manuscript notes said to be his, discovered and described about forty years ago by our countryman, Washingtcm Irving.
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...iscovery and exploration was ear- nestly pursued by the Portuguese^ In 1454 Prince Henry se- cured tiie services of Cadamosto, an intelligent Venetian, well acquainted with the trade of the Mediterranean and the East, and sent him down the coast of Africa, where he reduced the ezplorati(ms and the trade to order, and pushed southward the discoveries to the Cape Verde Islands by 1460, Ihe year of Hen- ry's death. By 1462 Pedro de Cintra had crept down the coast to some 300 miles beyond Sierra Leona In 1468 GKbraltar was ci^tured by Spain from tiie Moors.

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