toscanelli's

Updated: May 5, 2025

Certainly, whether he had the idea of reaching the Indies by a westward voyage before or not, he adopted Toscanelli's views with enthusiasm, and devoted his whole life henceforth to trying to carry them into operation. He gathered together all the information he could get about the fabled islands of the Atlantic the Island of St.

Joseph Jacobs - The Story of Geographical Discovery: How the World Became Known

You will see for yourself how many miles you must keep from the arctic pole toward the equator, and at what distance you will arrive at these regions so fertile and productive of spices and precious stones." In Toscanelli's letter, he not only indicates Japan, but, in the middle of the ocean, he places the island of Antilia.

Edward Everett Hale - The Life of Columbus : From His Own Letters and Journals and Other Documents of His Time

By a reckoning even more optimistic than Toscanelli's, he estimated the distance thither to be only 2500 miles. The northeast trade winds bore them steadily westward, raising in the minds of the already fear-stricken sailors the certainty that against these head winds they could never beat back.

William Oliver Stevens - A History of Sea Power