Description:New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, 1998. ill. American University Studies: Series 9, History. Vol. 185. Columbus and the New World presents a series of essays on the background and the prelude to Columbus's voyage, on the voyage of the discovery itself, and its aftermath. Contents: Thomas A. Losoncy: Preface - Kay Brigham: The Importance of the Book of Prophecies in Understanding Columbus - Vernon Bourke: Augustine and Columbus' Voyages - Allan Back: Avicenna in the Age of Columbus - George Saliba: Arabic Astronomy during the Age of Discovery - David Buisseret: The Cartographic Background to the Voyages of Columbus - Delno C. West: The Imagined World of Christopher Columbus - James E. Kelley, Jr.: Columbus's Navigation: Fifteenth-Century Technology in Search of Contemporary Understanding - James M. Muldoon: The Medieval Church-State Conflict in the New World - William H. McNeill: Biological and Ecological Repercussions of the Opening of the Oceans after 1492.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Columbus and the New World. To get started finding Columbus and the New World, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Description: New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, 1998. ill. American University Studies: Series 9, History. Vol. 185. Columbus and the New World presents a series of essays on the background and the prelude to Columbus's voyage, on the voyage of the discovery itself, and its aftermath. Contents: Thomas A. Losoncy: Preface - Kay Brigham: The Importance of the Book of Prophecies in Understanding Columbus - Vernon Bourke: Augustine and Columbus' Voyages - Allan Back: Avicenna in the Age of Columbus - George Saliba: Arabic Astronomy during the Age of Discovery - David Buisseret: The Cartographic Background to the Voyages of Columbus - Delno C. West: The Imagined World of Christopher Columbus - James E. Kelley, Jr.: Columbus's Navigation: Fifteenth-Century Technology in Search of Contemporary Understanding - James M. Muldoon: The Medieval Church-State Conflict in the New World - William H. McNeill: Biological and Ecological Repercussions of the Opening of the Oceans after 1492.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Columbus and the New World. To get started finding Columbus and the New World, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.