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It has been my peculiar fortune to live in the century
which discovered the whole world—America, Brazil,
Patagonia, Peru, Quito, Florida, New France, New Spain,
countries to the North and East and South. And what is
more marvellous than the human thunderbolt, which in its
power far exceeds the heavenly? Nor will I be silent about
thee, magnificent Magnet, who dost guide us through
vast oceans, and night and storms, into countries we
have never known. Then there is our printing press,
conceived by man’s genius, fashioned by his hands, yet a
miracle equal to the divine.
About the same time Pierre Boaistuau wrote in his
Theatrum Mundi : (71)
I can find nothing that may be equall or compare to the