Prince Henry the Navigator

This volume aims at giving an account, based throughout upon original sources, of the progress of geographical knowledge and enterprise in Christendom throughout the Middle Ages, down to the middle or even the end of the fifteenth century, as well as a life of Prince Henry the Navigator, who brought this movement of European Expansion within sight of its greatest successes. That is, as explained in Chapter I., it has been attempted to treat Exploration as one continuous thread in the story of Christian Europe from the time of the conversion of the Empire; and to treat the life of Prince Henry as the turning-point, the central epoch in a development of many centuries: this life, accordingly, has been linked as closely as possible with what went before and prepared for it; one third of the text, at least, has been occupied with the history of the preparation of the earlier time, and the difference between our account of the eleventh-and fifteenth-century Discovery, for instance, will be found to be chiefly one of less and greater detail.</div> <div jsname="WJz9Hc" style="display:none">本卷旨在提供一个账号，根据各地对原始资料，在基督教世界地理知识和企业的整个中世纪的进展，下到中部或十五世纪甚至结束，以及亨利王子的生活导航，谁看见它最大的成功内提出欧洲扩张的这种运动。也就是说，在第一章解释，它已经试图把探索在基督教欧洲从帝国的转换时间的故事，一个连续的螺纹;和治疗亨利王子的寿命作为转折点，在许多世纪的发展中的核心划时代：此生，因此，已被尽可能用什么地方之前和做好了准备联;文本的三分之一，至少已被占用与较早时间制备的历史，和我们的帐户的第十一和第十五世纪发现的之间的差，例如，将被认为是主要的一个以下，更详细地。</div> <div class="show-more-end">