...reached by sailing 3000 miles to the west. Columbus accepted the theories of Toscanelli, but a statement in the fourth book of Esdras, that six parts of the earth are inhabited and only the seventh covered with water, changed his views somewhat, and he claimed that...

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...Arabian Gulf to Cadiz. Now the Arabian Gulf is a whole year's voyage from the Indian sea (at the eastern extremity of Asia), so that it is clear that the eastern...habitable, and the seventh is covered with water.' After defending the authority of the Book of Esdras, though apocryphal, he goes on : ' Therefore I...

...Humboldt, vol. ip 55. Book I. from the Indian sea (at the eastern extremity of Asia), so Discovery. ^at '* is clear that the eastern extremity of Asia cannot...fourth Book of • Esdras, that six parts of the earth arc habitable, and the seventh is covered with water.' After defending the authority of the Book of...

...1431-87. « Pulci— Morgan te Magjdore, Canto XXV, St. 229-230. 3 Prescott— Ferdinand and Isabella, IT, 117. confirms this. Seneca says that this sea might...covered with water. Therefore I say that though the olnov^vrj Of Ptolemy be confined within one-fourth of the globe's surface, more of that surface is...

...measuring along the parallel of the Canaries the distance was only 18,000 miles. Taking the statement from the Fourth Book of Esdras that six parts of the earth are inhabited and only the seventh covered with water, he reasoned logically that the route to Zipangu...

...earth. This fact is proved by the weight of another consideration. For Ezra states in the fourth book that six parts of the earth are habitable and the seventh is covered by waters. That no one may lessen this authority by saying that that book is apocryphal and of unknown...

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