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“Carte de la nouuelle france, augmentée depuis la derniere seruant a la nauigation faicte en son vray Meridien, par le Sr de Champlain…” printed 1632; Library and Archives Canada, NMC 51970
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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“Carte de la nouuelle france, augmentée depuis la derniere seruant a la nauigation faicte en son vray Meridien, par le Sr de Champlain…” printed 1632; Library and Archives Canada, NMC 51970
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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The most famous nauigation of the English men by the Northeast sea hath offered vnto me a great occasion, and certaine direction for the reformation of the mappe of Europe: which discouerie hath the Northerne parts of Finmarke, Lapland, and Moscouie, laied out according to the iust eleuation and the quarters of the world.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The nauigation of King Edgar, taken out of Florentius
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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But considering with my selfe that that nauigation was not intermitted, but vpon great occasion, I thought that the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Heereupon it is manifest how truely Frisius hath written that nauigation to this Iland lieth open onely for foure moneths in a yeere, and no longer, by reason of the ice and colde, whereby the passage is shut vp, when as English ships euery yere, sometimes in
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Wolstans nauigation in the East sea, from Hetha to Trusco, which is about Dantzig.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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It is so, that there are rules vsed in nauigation which are not perfectly true: among which the streight lines in sea-cardes, representing the 32. points of the compasse or windes are hot holden to be the least, but noted of such talkers for principall, to condemne the occupiers thereof for ignorant: yet hath the famous and learned Gerardus Mercator vsed them in his uniuersal mappe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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But least all and the whole glory of discouering the Ocean sea should be ascribed to the Spaniards, the Englishmen about twentie yeeres past, by a new nauigation into Moscouie, discouered the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Which nauigation to Cathay, although it be not as yet throughly knowen, yet if with often frequenting the same, and by long vse and knowledge of those seas it bee continued it is like to make a wonderfull change and reuolution in the state of this our port of the world.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
blacksmith_tb commented on the word nauigation
Better known as navigation, the u and v weren't pronounced the same, but it did save on leaded type to use one letter for both.
March 16, 2010