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The secret discovery of Australia : Portuguese ventures 200 years before Captain Cook / [by] Kenneth Gordon McIntyre.

Title: The secret discovery of Australia : Portuguese ventures 200 years before Captain Cook / [by] Kenneth Gordon McIntyre.
Author: McIntyre, Kenneth Gordon
Publication: Medindie ; London : Souvenir Press, 1977.

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Description

xxi, 427 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

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History

Note

Map on lining papers.
Includes indexes.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. [403]-413.

Processing Action (note)

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Contents

The question -- Part One. What knew the Portuguese of this great country? -- 1. Prince Henry the Navigator -- 2. The Portolans -- 3. The Treaty of Tordesillas -- 4. The Line of Demarcation -- 5. Timor -- 6. India Meridional -- 7. The cartographical spies -- Part Two. Old-time charts bespeak some knowledge -- 8. The Dauphin Map -- 9. Java -- 10. The Antarctic extension -- 11. The Lisbon mapmakers -- 12. Loxodromes and erration -- 13. Magnetic south -- 14. The Rio Grande -- 15. From Rotz to Desliens -- 16. Mercator and de Jode -- Part Three. In their rivalry with Spain they kept a secret.

ISBN

0285623036 :

LCCN

^^^78307309^

OCLC

4035561

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Harvard Library