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And the day of the moneth is also added in his owne mappe, which is yn the Queenes privie gallorie at Westminster, the copye whereof was sett oute by Mr. Clemente Adams, and is in many marchantes houses in London.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Con gli sviluppi della scienza, risolti i misteri, le mappe, come la vita, divennero più piene e più complesse.
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& Flettcher who hath the care of him hath prated that that Ile shall be called in our mappe Insula Endymione, but I have geuen order he shall hold his fooles tong lest he engender fear in the saylers, & Crokeham hath benn lain alone in Iota's cabin lest more talke betyde.
The Life of the World to Come Baker, Kage 2004
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If you arriue at Cambalu or Quinsay, to bring thence the mappe of that countrey, for so shall you haue the perfect description, which is to great purpose.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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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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Oxford, came into those Islands, who leauing them, and passing further by his Magicall Arte, described all those places that he sawe, and tooke the height of them with his Astrolabe, according to the forme that I (Gerard Mercator) haue set downe in my mappe, and as I haue taken it out of the aforesaid Iames Cnoyen.
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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Take with you the mappe of England set out in faire colours, one of the biggest sort I meane, to make shew of your countrey from whence you come.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Highnesse nauie, and annexed vnto his exact and notable mappe of
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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I rely on the authority of _The merchants mappe of commerce_, by Lewes
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