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CHAPTER XII
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The Medicean Portulano compiled.
1375.

Cresquez, the Jew, of Majorca, improves Dulcert's Portulano (Catalan map).
_cir._1400.Jehan Bethencourt re-discovers the Canaries.
1419.

Prince Henry the Navigator establishes a geographical seminary at Sagres (died 1460).
1419-40.

Nicolo Conti, a noble Venetian, travelled throughout Southern India and along the Bombay coast.
1420.

Zarco discovers Madeira.
1432.


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