Discovery of the Canary Islands in classical Greek and Roman, Arabic and Portuguese sources 1844
Joaquim José da Costa de Macedo
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- A proposito di opere d'arteMemoria em que se pertende provar que os Arabes não conhecerão as Canarias antes dos Portuguezes.
Lisbon, printing office of the Academia Real das Sciencias, 1844. Folio. With a woodcut Portuguese coat of arms on the title-page. Modern brown paper wrapper.
A detailed scholarly study of ancient sources for the history and geography of the Canary Islands, attempting to prove that the Portuguese discovered them before Islamic explorers, and that Islamic geographers knew them only through classical Greek and Roman sources. The main text is followed by extensive notes from a wide variety of sources and transcriptions of numerous primary sources, some in Greek or Arabic. In passing it also provides a wealth of information about navigation in the Mediterranean and Atlantic by classical Greek and Roman and by Islamic explorers. While Macedo's claim for Malocello's discovery of the Canaries in 1336 is no longer accepted, the Islamic geographer Idrisi noted a Portuguese voyage to the Canaries already before 1154.
In fine condition and wholly untrimmed, giving very large margins. The modern wrapper is slightly tattered.
Porbase (1 copy); cf. Innocêncio IV, 96 and XII, 80 (issue in proceedings); for the author: www.academia.edu/6742675. - A proposito di opere artistaJoaquim José da Costa de Macedo è stato un professore portoghese di filosofia razionale e morale, membro dell'Accademia delle scienze e bibliotecario della Biblioteca pubblica di Lisbona. Ha fatto parte di commissioni decisive per la ricerca documentaria portoghese.
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