| John Adams - Voyages and travels - 1816 - 346 pages
...andFlorenee by its manufactures^ possessed the whole trade of Europe, Persia, and the Indies ; but the discovery of a passage to the East, by the Cape of Good-Hope, and the settlements of the Portugnes in India, proved fatal to the republic of Venice. Lisbon... | |
| Charles N. Baldwin - Biography - 1833 - 466 pages
...died a 1550. TOSCANELLA, Paul, an eminent nstrononer, who is supposed to have formed the first dea of a passage to the East, by the Cape of Good Hope ; he died about 1490. TOSTATUS, Alphonse, a doctor, of SalaĦanca, and bishop of Avilla, distinguished... | |
| Charles N. Baldwin - Biography - 1842 - 454 pages
...died n 1550. TOSCANELLA, Paul, an eminent aslrononer, who is supposed to have formed the first dea of a passage to the East, by the Cape of Good Hope ; he died about 1490. TOSTATUS, Alphonso, a doctor, of Sala-, manca, and bishop of Avilla, distinguished... | |
| Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1846 - 604 pages
...north-east from the straits of Babelmandel. In the 15th century it was the chief emporium of Arabia; hut the discovery of a passage to the East by the Cape of Good Hope destroyed its pre! eminence, and gradually reduced its population, which 200 years ago amounted to... | |
| John Henry Gray - Voyages and travels - 1879 - 658 pages
...commercial importance was almost destroyed by the discovery on the part of Vasco di Gama, in 1497, of a passage to the East by the Cape of Good Hope. The construction of the Suez Canal by M. Lesseps, has made it once more the high road of nations. It... | |
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