Verwandte Artikel zu The English Empire in America, by R.B.
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1728. Excerpt: ... 'she first Discovery os the New If arid calledAMERICA. THE New World is the most proper Name forthis immense Country, as being discovered by Christopher Columbus about $oo Years ago, in 1419.The ancient Fathers, Philosophers and Poets were cfc Opinion, That those Places near rhe North and SouthPole were unhabitable, by the Extreniity of Cold, and the middle Pares by unreasonable Heat, and thought it a Contradiction to believe the Earth was round; and VopeZacbary sentenced Bishop rhgilhs,Tole cast out of the Temple and Church ofGdd, and dep.ived of hit Bifioprick for this perverse DoBrine, That there aere Antipodes, or Perple-whose Feet are placed against ours: Though this Discovery of America haS fully confirmed these Opinions, and that there is no such Torrid Zone where theHeat is so noxious as to unpeople any part of the Earth, and the Sun's yearly compassing of the World evidenceth the necessity of Inhabitants on all parts of the-Glober The next Inquiry may be, whether the Ancients had any Knowledge of these Regions, which many think they had not; for though Seneca says in his Medea, That new Worlds fiall be dscoveted in the last Ages, urd Thule in Norway sbnll be no longer the tttmest Nation cf the Wo: Id; yet this seems only tointimate the common Discoveries of Navigation: AndPlato's Atlantis cannot intend this Country, because he placeth it at the Mouth of the Mediterranean Sea, which. is separated from America by a vast Ocean, and says it-' is not now in Being, but was by an Earthquake o verwhelmcd in the'Sea. Other Authors since have A . men-j laenttoned some Islands in that great Sea, which seem sather those on the Coasts of Africa than America, it feeing improbable, if not impossible, any should undertake such long and dangerous Voyages, before ...
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