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Magellan, Ferdinand by Almo
Title: Magellan, Ferdinand by Almo
Category: History
Details: Words: 1156 | Pages: 4.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Magellan, Ferdinand by Almo
Magellan, Ferdinand
Most fearsome of all, the man who would destroy the very world the cartographers had drowned. In his time, by his compatriot and his own king, they treated him as renegade and transfuga, but now in Lisbon they proudly say “his ours”. One, or certainly most important explorer in history, was a faithful man trough which modesty arose. Fact that his Spanish sponsors never shared his sense of mission he found reason for …showed first 75 words of 1156 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1156 total…Pigafetta wrote:” In the midst of the sea, he was able to endure hunger better than we were. Most versed in nautical charts, he knew better that any other the true art of navigation, of which it is certain proof that he by his genius, and his intrepidity, without anyone giving him example, how to attempt the circuit of the globe which he had almost completed…The glory and achievement of Magellan will survive him.”
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