 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1810 - 446 pages
...Greek geographers placed their first meridian to pass through one of the islands, which were by them called the Fortunate Islands, since called the Canaries....part of the world. " They reckoned their longitude eust, from Hera or Junonia, one of these islands, supposed to be the present island of Teneriffe. "... | |
 | John Vose - 1834 - 230 pages
...reckoned their longitude east from Hera, or Junonia, supposed to be the present island of TenerifFe. " The ancient Greek geographers placed their first meridian...Canaries. Those islands were situated as far west as any islands that had then been discovered, or were known by ancient navigators in that part of the world.... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1853 - 726 pages
...geographers placed their first meridian to pass through one of the islands, which wen by them colled the Fortunate Islands, since called the Canaries....the world. They reckoned their longitude east, from Hcria or Junoma, one of these islands, supposed to be the present Island of Teneriffe. The Arabians,... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1857 - 840 pages
...Greek geographers placed their first meridian to pass through one of the islands, which were by them called the Fortunate Islands, since called the Canaries. Those islands were situated as far west as any lauds that had then been discovered, or were known by ancient navigators in that part of the world.... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1910 - 452 pages
...Greek geographers placed their first meridian to pass through one of the islands, which were by them called the Fortunate Islands, since called the Canaries....reckoned their longitude east, from Hera or Junonia, one of these islands, supposed to be the present island of Teneriffe. " The Arabians, it is said, fixed... | |
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Junonia, one of these islands, supposed to be the present island of Teneriffe. " The Arabians, it is said, fixed their firs,t meridian at the most westerly part of the continent of Africa. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when Europe was emerging... 