newly-visited

Updated: June 5, 2025

By the wonderful discoveries of the starry Galileo, man's intellectual vision was infinitely extended, and the great fundamental idea of modern astronomy infinite space peopled with worlds like our own was for the first time realised. It was an era of maritime enterprise; the world was circumnavigated, and new ideas streamed in from each newly-visited region.

Hugh Macmillan - Roman Mosaics: Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood