The History of Maritime and Inland Discovery, Volum 3Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Greene, 1838 |
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... round the World . - Anecdote of Baré . - The New Cyclades.- Louisiade CHAP . III . COOK'S FIRST VOYAGE . 25 Early Life of Cook . - His first Promotion in the Navy . - Surveys the St. Law- rence . - Appointed to survey Newfoundland ...
... round the World . - Anecdote of Baré . - The New Cyclades.- Louisiade CHAP . III . COOK'S FIRST VOYAGE . 25 Early Life of Cook . - His first Promotion in the Navy . - Surveys the St. Law- rence . - Appointed to survey Newfoundland ...
Side 16
... round the Pacific was founded on something better than mere caprice . Yet in the Venetian maps which immediately followed , the two continents are again united . In all these maps we find the Terra Australis adhuc inexplorata , or ...
... round the Pacific was founded on something better than mere caprice . Yet in the Venetian maps which immediately followed , the two continents are again united . In all these maps we find the Terra Australis adhuc inexplorata , or ...
Side 17
... round Jupiter , no satisfactory conclusions could be drawn from the observation of that planet . Until Cassini pub- lished his tables in 1668 nothing accurate was known respecting the eclipses and revolutions of Jupiter's satellites ...
... round Jupiter , no satisfactory conclusions could be drawn from the observation of that planet . Until Cassini pub- lished his tables in 1668 nothing accurate was known respecting the eclipses and revolutions of Jupiter's satellites ...
Side 18
... round them every day , and which , though far from exact , never deviated into such errors as those which were handed down traditionally from the ancients . By his desire Chazelles was sent to the Levant , to correct the map of the ...
... round them every day , and which , though far from exact , never deviated into such errors as those which were handed down traditionally from the ancients . By his desire Chazelles was sent to the Levant , to correct the map of the ...
Side 21
... round the South Pole , yet the be- lief in the necessity of an antarctic continent , in order to estab- lish the equilibrium of the earth , and the credulous and even disingenuous attempts to support this hypothesis by fragments of ...
... round the South Pole , yet the be- lief in the necessity of an antarctic continent , in order to estab- lish the equilibrium of the earth , and the credulous and even disingenuous attempts to support this hypothesis by fragments of ...
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The History of Maritime and Inland Discovery, Volum 3 William Desborough Cooley Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1831 |
The History of Maritime and Inland Discovery, Volum 3 William Desborough Cooley Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1831 |
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