COSMOS, VOL. II - World eBook Library

Till CONTENTS.
The conjectured discovery of America by the Irish
The efforts of missionaries
607
608
The traces of Gaelic supposed to be met with in American dialects
The re-discovory
609
of America by Columbus
The discovery of tropical America
Albertus Magnus, Bacon, and Vincenzius of Beauvais
612
614
615
Realistsand Nominalists 617
The encyclopaedic works of the fifteenth century
620
The revival of Greek literature 622
Important events in Asia
Early travellers
Marco Polo's narratives
624
625
626
Use of the magnetic needle
The supposed inventor of the mariner's compass
Application
628
629
of astronomy to navigation
630
Martyr de Anghiera
The charts consulted by Columbus
The characteristics of Columbus
635
638
639
The discovery and navigation of the Pacific
The first circumnavigation of the earth
The Conquistadores
The discovery of the Sandwich Islands, &c
Spanish travellers in the new continent
643
647
648
649
651
Papal line of demarcation
Line without magnetic variation
The magnetic pole
The line of perpetual snow
The equatorial current
655
656
659
660
662
The first descriptions of the southern constellations 664
The coal-bags and the Magellanic clouds
The southern cross
665
666
The determination of the ship's place
670
The age of the Conquista
675
YII. Great discoveries in the Heavens 681-737
The telescope
The seventeenth century
Nicolaus Copernicus
The different stages of the development of cosmical contemplation
The theory of eccentric intercalated spheres
The great men of the seventeenth century
The accidental discovery of the telescope
Telescopic discoveries
The discovery of Jupiter's satellites
The spots upon the sun
Galileo
681
682
683
689
697
698
699
702
704
706
708
Kepler
The zodiacal light
709
712