The whole onward and outward movement of the great exploring age
was set in motion by one man. It might have come to pass without him,
but the fact is simply that through him it did, as a matter of history,
result. "And let him that did more than this, go before him."
INDEX.
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Abulfeda, 28
Adelard, of Bath, geographical postulates, 9, 10
Adelard or Athelard, 84
Affonso, comes of age, 257;
marries his cousin Isabel, 258;
forces Pedro into revolt, and declares war against him, 258, 259;
sends out Gomez with a large caravel, 296;
has the body of Prince Henry laid in chapel at Batalha, 305;
carries on the work of his uncle, Prince Henry, 312, 313;
is succeeded by King John II., 314
Africa, shape of, 13
Albateny, determined problems of astronomical geography, 19
Albertus Magnus, geographical postulates, 9, 11
Albuquerque, 125
Albyrouny, work of, 21
Alfarrobeira, battle of, 260
Alfred the Great, credit due to, for discoveries, 72;
efforts in exploration and religious extension, 74
Al Heravy, life of, 26
Almada, the Hercules of Portugal, 184;
stands by Pedro, 259;
dies, 260
Almamoun, age of, 18
Almanack, Arab, Latin translation of, 21
Ant islands discovered, 160
Antoninus the Martyr, an older Mandeville, 34;
legends of, 35
Arctic colonies checked, 59
Arculf, 42;
travels of, 43
Arguin, fort built in the bay of, 205
Arim, "World's Summit," 8;
taken as measure of places, 10;
twofold, 11
Armada of Lagos, 228-239;
"the third," 247
Athelard, or Adelard, 84
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