Petrus de abano

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The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 primary

Marco Polo · c. 1298 (Book of Marco Polo)
C.S.I., Major-General KEYES, C.B., Dr. GEORGE BIRDWOOD, Mr. BURGESS, of > Book of Facts, and not as a mere *Romman du Grant Kaan*.[13] But in fact this age produced new supplies of crude information in greater abundance than the knowledge of geographers was prepared to digest or co-ordinate, and the consequence is that the magnificent Work of Fra (1/8)

A reference identifies Peter of Abano as a physician and philosopher, gives his birth in 1250 and death in 1316, and notes he twice faced the Inquisition.

Mauro (1459), though the result of immense labour in the collection of facts and the endeavour to combine them, really gives a considerably less accurate idea of Asia than that which the Catalan Map had afforded.[14] And when at a still later date the great burst of discovery eastward and westward took effect, the results of all attempts to combine the new knowledge with the old was most unhappy. The first and crude…