| Electronic journals - 1899 - 860 pages
...since the great geographical voyages associated with the names of Columbus, Da Gama, and Magellan, at the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries. It is not my intention on this occasion to attempt anything like a general review of the present state... | |
| English literature - 1901 - 662 pages
...veil of ignorance hanging over the most inhospitable and forbidding area on the surface of our planet. The end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries were the golden age of geographical discovery. Until that time, men's knowledge of the world had been... | |
| Armand Pierre Marie Dayot - Beauty, Personal - 1901 - 312 pages
...with the " phosphorescent flesh." Notwithstanding their excess of piety, the Flemish Primitives of the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries (see the following chapter) showed themselves to be very remarkable interpreters of feminine graces... | |
| Fedor Fedorovich Zigelʹ - Law - 1902 - 168 pages
...the law procedure, and of the private law in Victorin Kornelius of Vsehrd, the celebrated lawyer of the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries (0 prdvich zeme ceskt knihy devatery, ' Nine Books upon the Laws of the Bohemian Country'). A into... | |
| Thomas Hay Sweet Escott - Constitutional history - 1902 - 382 pages
...deputy ; thus no deputies from the Kingdom of Leon came to the Alcala Cortes of 1 348 ; * thus, towards the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries, only seventeen Spanish towns were represented in the Cortes of Castile. Still the Castilian deputies... | |
| 1902 - 604 pages
...specially notice the opening one on " The Holy Eucharist," an historical inquiry dealing chiefly with the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries, containing much interesting matter. We shall look with expectation for its completion. In the July... | |
| John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - History - 1903 - 868 pages
...Boyd Thatcher. One object in view is to put before the reader the information that was accessible at the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries ; wherefore old manuscripts, charts and accounts are reproduced in full. Also, an investigation is... | |
| Thomas Perkins - Church architecture - 1903 - 148 pages
...palace was built by the Cardinals d'Estouteville and Georges d'Amboise I., and therefore dates from the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries. The thrust of the vaulted roof, as is usual in French cathedrals, is opposed by a system of flying... | |
| John Arthur Thomson - Science - 1903 - 582 pages
...since the great geographical voyages associated with the names of Columbus, Da Gama, and Magellan, at the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries." * Our picture of the Deep Sea is necessarily darklyshaded and in many respects dim and vague, but it... | |
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