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But his fame remained great in Guienne. Half a century onward, during the war of 1570, when from Bordeaux men saw the church of Lormont across the river burning in the name of religion, the old folks shook their heads and recalled the words of the saintly Thomas. Less fortunate was a young Franconian herdsman, John Beheim, of Niklashausen a 'poor illiterate', Trithemius calls him.
XV. ANTILLIA The name Antillia appears first, but not very clearly, on the Pizigani map of 1367; then clearly on a map of 1424, preserved at Weimar, on that of Bianco in 1436, and on the globe of Beheim in 1492, which adds in an inscription the story of the Seven Bishops.
An astrolabe such as Martin Beheim had invented for the Portuguese, a clumsy astronomical ring of three feet in circumference was still the chief machine used for ascertaining the latitude, and on shipboard a most defective one.
An astrolabe such as Martin Beheim had invented for the Portuguese, a clumsy astronomical ring of three feet in circumference was still the chief machine used for ascertaining the latitude, and on shipboard a most defective one.
An astrolabe such as Martin Beheim had invented for the Portuguese, a clumsy astronomical ring of three feet in circumference was still the chief machine used for ascertaining the latitude, and on shipboard a most defective one.
An astrolabe such as Martin Beheim had invented for the Portuguese, a clumsy astronomical ring of three feet in circumference was still the chief machine used for ascertaining the latitude, and on shipboard a most defective one.
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