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First stay in England: 1499-1500 Oxford: John Colet Erasmus's aspirations directed towards divinity He is as yet mainly a literate Fisher and More Mishap at Dover when leaving England: 1500 Back in France he composes the Adagia Years of trouble and penury
The first important expedition along the northern coast of South America was that of Ojeda in 1499-1500, in company with Juan de la Cosa, next to Columbus the most expert navigator and pilot of the age, and Vespucci, perhaps his equal in nautical science as he was his superior in other departments of polite learning.
He had often been ill beside the sluggish Seine, and had only found his health again by leaving it. The theologians were still predominant there, and Louis XII had a way of interfering with scholars who discovered any freedom of thought. Standonck, for instance, the refounder of Montaigu, had had to disappear in 1499-1500.
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