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 | | In 1474 he is said to Idea of have corresponded with Paolo Toscanelli, the Floren- western tine physician and cosmographer, and to have received I~as;afe from him valuable suggestions, both by map and 0 s a. |
 | | (The whole of this incident has been disputed by some recent critics.) He had perhaps already begun his studies in a number of works, especially the Book of Marco Polo and the Imago Mund-i of Pierre dAilly, by which his cosmographical and geographical conceptions were largely moulded. |
 | | His views, as finally developed and presented to the courts of Portugal and Spain, were supported by three principal lines of argument, derived from natural reasons, from the theories of geographers, and from the reports and traditions of mariners. |
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