circumnavigable

Henry, prince of Portugal, progress of discovery under; account of; considers Africa to be circumnavigable; conceives the idea of turning the trade of the East; establishes a naval college at Sagres; death.

The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 1892

The knowledge of the ancients with respect to the Atlantic coast of Africa is considered by modern investigators much less extensive than had been imagined; and it is doubted whether they had any practical authority for the belief that Africa was circumnavigable.

The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 1892

Eudoxus thereupon concluded that Africa was circumnavigable, and presently sailed through the Mediterranean and out upon the Atlantic.

The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest John Fiske 1871

Ohio, and is circumnavigable on the east, north, and west.

North America 1862

Neco determined to try whether Africa was not circumnavigable.

Ancient Egypt George Rawlinson 1857

It juts out to the northward from the main land of Indiana and Ohio, and is circumnavigable on the east, north, and west.

North America — Volume 1 Anthony Trollope 1848

The knowledge of the ancients with respect to the Atlantic coast of Africa is considered by modern investigators much less extensive than had been imagined; and it is doubted whether they had any practical authority for the belief that Africa was circumnavigable.

The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II) Washington Irving 1821

Henry, prince of Portugal, progress of discovery under; account of; considers Africa to be circumnavigable; conceives the idea of turning the trade of the East; establishes a naval college at Sagres; death.

The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II) Washington Irving 1821

The last thirty years have also had a world-historical significance with regard to the compression of global space: international mobility has become a mass phenomenon; the globe has become circumnavigable within 36 hours for every citizen and commodity of the industrialized world.

Peak Oil News 2009

a full proof that Africa was circumnavigable on the south.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson William Stevenson 1784