Word: bartholomeu
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...precisely measured could space be systematically explored. From the 14th century clock came the 15th century navigational instruments that could guide mariners across an uncharted ocean. Yet history is only occasionally that logical, as Boorstin delights in pointing out, for much of it derives from blunders and accidents. Bartholomeu Dias' maps all showed that there was no ocean route around Africa. It was only after he had been driven off course by a storm in February of 1488 that he found he had somehow rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and that there was a cape to be rounded...
Nazca ceramic pot seems to represent a hot-air bag. The researchers also found a significant clue in documents at the University of Coimbra in Portugal. These papers revealed that in 1709 a Brazilian-born Jesuit missionary named Bartholomeu de Gusmao went to Lisbon and demonstrated (74 years before France's Montgolfier brothers flew their balloon over Paris) a model of a balloon believed to have been used by the Indians. Filled with smoke and buoyed by hot air from glowing coals in a clay pot, the replica rose from Gusmao's hand and floated toward the palace...
...finding out what the valley next to his was like, until today, when the unknown is the solar system, man has had to conquer the fear of the dangers which the unknown conceals not only as they are but as he fancies them," writes De Madariaga. "The companions of Bartholomeu Diaz had to conquer the fear that the ocean at and beyond the equator might boil or drop into a cosmic precipice; the companions of Columbus feared griffins, sirens, men with tails or with their heads screwed to their navels. Our astronauts' imagination is more disciplined by knowledge...
...grinned the crowd. In the morning workmen came back to Bartholomeu Mitre Street. With shovels they threw the sand into the truck. Then they drove away...
...next evening, at dusk, Correspondent Newton was coming home in a taxi. As it turned into Bartholomeu Mitre Street, the dark mass of the sandpile loomed up in the mist, and Newton shouted a warning to the driver. As the chauffeur turned to ask what was wrong, the taxi plowed into the sandpile...