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Inventio Fortunata (also
Inventio Fortunate,
Inventio Fortunat or
Inventio Fortunatae), "Fortunate, or fortune-making, discovery", is a lost book, probably...
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regnabat nox,
surgite tandem laeti qui
timuistis adhuc, et
jucundi aurorae fortunatae frondes dextera plena et
lilia date. The
friendly day
shines forth, both...
- in the
second century,
Ptolemy mapped the
whole known world from the "
Fortunatae Insulae", Cape
Verde or
Canary Islands,
eastward to the Gulf of Thailand...
- to the
Canary Islands. The
names of the
islands (then
called Insulae Fortunatae or the "Fortunate Isles") were
recorded as
Junonia (Fuerteventura), Canaria...
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University of Oxford. Enterline,
James (May 2003). "Chapter 3: The
Inventio Fortunatae and
Martin Behaim". Erikson, Eskimos, and Columbus:
Medieval European...
- the
section on
famous islands in Isidore's work Etymologiae, XIV.6.8 "
Fortunatae Insulae"),
shows the
magical nature of the island: The Isle of
Fruit Trees...
- only
surviving maps made in India. The map
stretched from the
Insulae Fortunatae (Canary Islands) in the top
right to
Andalusia (Europe) to Sus al Aqsa...
- "Forte Ventura".
Another theory is that the island's name
derives from "
Fortunatae Insulae" (Fortunate Islands), the name by
which the
Romans knew the Canary...
- The city of
Regensburg in Bavaria.
Nicholas of Lynn. His work,
Inventio Fortunatae, now lost,
still existed in 1569. One ship only, the Vittoria, completed...
-
edition in
vernacular Italian.
Ptolemy had
mapped the
whole world from the
Fortunatae Insulae (Cape
Verde or
Canary Islands)
eastward to the
eastern s**** of...
