Quotes About Discovery

And a feeling came over him, as if he'd found something he'd lost, something precious. His hope.

But Dewey didn't look at him. He was looking at something downstream. He had a strange look on his face. And then Chet saw it too: a gray triangle sticking up through the water, heading right for Dewey.

It turned out that not all of those poems were so boring.

You never know what's ahead," Papa would say, his eyes brimming with excitement.

Things turn up in strange places all the time. For example library books, which possess a disconcerting ability to move from place to place, seemingly of their own volition.

Fernão de Magalhães, or Ferdinand Magellan. According to most accounts, he was born in 1480, in the remote mountain parish of Sabrosa, the seat of the family homestead. He spent his childhood in northwestern Portugal, within sight of the pounding surf of the Atlantic.

the Armada de Molucca put to sea.

The strait still eluded them but, God willing, they would find it, and reach the Spice Islands

By May 18, they went ashore again, in a different bay, where they waited fifteen days for the missing ships.

With their maneuverable sails and impressive seaworthiness, caravels became the vessels of choice for exploration.

mass, only Magellan's cousin, Álvaro de Mesquita, the recently appointed captain of San Antonio, came aboard Trinidad

Magellan realized that the empty chairs made for an ominous sign.

under the command of the two Portuguese commanders.

In pursuit of his goal, he attracted navigators, shipwrights, astronomers, pilots, cosmographers, and cartographers

Sailing into these shallow, sediment-rich waters, Magellan thought he might have been entering the waterway leading

where they cooperated in the enterprise of exploring the world, under Henry's direction.

They designed a new type of ship, the small, maneuverable caravel

and it was probably a robust sudestada that caused Magellan to turn back and seek shelter.

With their shallow draught and movable sails, Henry's caravels could set a course close to the wind

learned to his relief that they were deep enough for his ships to pass unharmed.

The privileged pages maintained the sixteen Venetian sand clocks—or ampolletas—carried by Magellan's ships.

maneuverable sails and impressive seaworthiness, caravels became the vessels of choice for exploration.

Prince Henry sent no less than fourteen expeditions to Cape Bojador within twelve years

Years before Magellan arrived at the Río de la Plata, both Spanish and Portuguese ships had searched for the strait at this very point.