Word: guant
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Dates: during 1892-1892
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Prince Henry of Portugal, descendant of the English John of Guant earned for himself the title of the Navigator, by his expeditions along the coast of Africa, and in 1457 the King of Portugal authorized an expedition to the West. From 1474 on, the influence of Tuscanelli, the Florentine astronomer, was very great. Belief in the western passage was in the air, and in 1479 the theory of the western extension found its greatest adherent in the Italian wanderer who was destined to work out its solution...