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Toscanelli and Columbus, the letter and chart of Toscanelli on the route to the Indies by way of the west, sent in 1474 to the Portuguese, Fernam Martins, and later on to Christopher Columbus, a critical study ..., by Henry Vignaud

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Toscanelli and Columbus, the letter and chart of Toscanelli on the route to the Indies by way of the west, sent in 1474 to the Portuguese, Fernam Martins, and later on to Christopher Columbus, a critical study ..., by Henry Vignaud

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eng

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Includes bibliographies and index

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contains biographical information

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illustrationsfacsimiles

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index present

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non fiction

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Toscanelli and Columbus

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bibliography

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by Henry Vignaud

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the letter and chart of Toscanelli on the route to the Indies by way of the west, sent in 1474 to the Portuguese, Fernam Martins, and later on to Christopher Columbus, a critical study ...

Table Of Contents

First part: The letter. Sources of information : bibliography ; Advice attributed to Toscanelli as to the route to the Indies of the West ; Reasons for doubting the genuineness of the alleged correspondence of Toscanelli with Martins and Columbus ; Reasons for doubting that the letter to Martins was written in 1474 ; Columbus' cosmographical ideas are identical with those expressed in the letter attributed to Toscanelli ; Possible motives for the fraud ; Possible authors and probable author of the fraud -- Second part: The map. Sources of information : bibliography ; Attempt to reconstruct Toscanelli's map ; Columbus' road-map -- Summary and conclusions. I. Summing up ; II. Columbus' share in the deceit ; III. Conclusions suggested -- Appendices. Appendix A: Toscanelli's letter to Fernam Martins, 25th June 1474 ; Appendix B: The same letter : Latin text from the Colombina, with a corrected text and notes ; Appendix C: The same letter : Spanish version of Las Casas, with an English translation ; Appendix D: Same letter : Italian version, with English translation ; Appendix E: Toscanelli's letters to Columbus, text and translations ; Appendix F: Some primary considerations on the nature, origin, and meaning of the so-called second letter of Toscanelli : Letter from Mr. John B. Shipley ; Appendix G: Enlarged facsimile of the Latin text of the letter of 1474 : translation of this letter as deciphered by M. de Lollis ; Appendix H: Enlarged facsimile of specimens of writing of Christopher and Bartholomew Columbus ; Appendix I: Table for understanding the hypotheses on the measurement of the Earth attributed to Toscanelli -- Appendix J: Attempt to explain, after the letter to Martins, and the notions of Columbus, the map attributed to Toscanelli

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