Magellan oif the Pacific. Roditi, Edouard.:

Inside easily bronzy, otherwise in mint condition. Contents: Magellan's voyage of exploration remains the most important accomplished on our planet. Not only did its survivors circumnavigate the Earth for the first time, but it proved that the continent of America can be circumnavigated; that the circumference of the Earth at its equator or along any of its meridians is greater than any geographer since Ptolemy had believed; that the Earth, on empirical evidence alone, is really a sphere, and that one gains a day by circumnaviagting it as one follows the Sun from east to west. Fernando de Magalhaes, after eight years' service in Africa, India and other parts of Asia, returned to Portugal aged 33, an obscure veteran seeking promotion. At 37 or 38, he was disdainfully granted permission to go abroad and serve some other monarch.

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