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Means to Explore

Means to Explore. Borrowers. Renaissance Europeans borrowed ideas and knowledge from other times and places They were part of a vast trading network from Asia into Africa Exchange of ideas and knowledge

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Means to Explore

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  1. Means to Explore

  2. Borrowers • Renaissance Europeans borrowed ideas and knowledge from other times and places • They were part of a vast trading network from Asia into Africa • Exchange of ideas and knowledge • Openness and curiosity about the rest of the world came out of this and were part of their worldview • Their knowledge of the outside world was very limited, however • Other places were thought to be exotic and mysterious • Travel books were extremely popular • They were often full of misinformation

  3. Maps of the World • Ptolemy was not just an astronomer, he was also a geographer • His manuscript Geographia was re-discovered during the Renaissance • It reflected the knowledge of the world around the year 150 • It was published in the Renaissance with maps made by cartographers • Italian monk Fra Mauro produced a map for King Alfonso V of Portugal in 1459 • He combined Ptolemy's ideas and those of explorers, and from Arab and Chinese sources

  4. Prince Henry the Navigator • Prince Henry of Portugal came to be known as Prince Henry the Navigator • He had a great interest in ships and navigation • Prince Henry became a patron of Portuguese explorers • He sponsored many voyages along the coast of Africa • He established a centre at Sagres where those involved in navigation could meet and share ideas • Cartographers, mathematicians, astronomers, sailors and navigators • They improved navigational instruments and created maps • They created tables to help determine latitude

  5. Navigation • Navigation is the science of determining the course, position and distance travelled by a ship • It comes from the Latin words navis “ship” and agere “drive”

  6. Assignment/14 • Read page 117 in your textbook and answer the following questions 1) What are the names of the four navigational instruments? /4 2) What are their uses? /4 3) What is the origin of their creation? /4 4) Which of the instruments do you think was the most important? Why? /2

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