XC NOTES. 



t 488 ) p. 246. Kosmos, Bd. ii. S. 329 and 485 (Amn. 6) ; Eng. ed. p. 289, 

 xcv. Note 446. 



( 439 ) p. 247. Ideler, Untersuchungen iiber den Ursprung und die Bedeu- 

 tung der Sternnamen (Investigations respecting the Origin and Signification of 

 the Names of Stars), 1809, S. xlix. and 262. The name Abdurrahman Sufi i* 

 abbreviated byTJlughBeg from AbdurrahmanEbn-Omar Ebn-MohammedEbn- 

 Sahl Abu'l-Hassan el-Sufi el-Razi. Ulugh Beg, who, like Nassir-eddin, cor- 

 rected the star-positions of Ptolemy by his own observations (1437), owns 

 to having borrowed the positions of 27 more southern stars, not visible at 

 Samarcand, from Abdurrahman Sufi. 



C 140 ) p. 248. Compare my geographical inquiries respecting the discovery 

 of the south point of Africa, and the statements of Cardinal Zurla and Count 

 Baldelli, in the Examen. crit. de 1'hist. de la Geogr. aux 15eme et 16eme 

 Siecles, T. i. p. 229-348. It is a curious fact that the discovery of the Cape 

 of Good Hope, which Martin Behaiin calls Terra Fragosa, not Cabo Tor- 

 mentoso, was made by Diaz in coming from the eastward (from Algoa Bay, 

 in 33 47' S. lat., more than 7 18' east of Table Bay). Lichtenstein im 

 Vaterlandischen Museum, Hamburg, 1810, S. 372-389. 



( 441 ) p. 249. The important, and not sufficiently noticed, discovery of the 

 South point of the New Continent, in S. lat. 55 (very characteristically indi- 

 cated in Urdaneta's journal by the words " acabamiento de tierra," the ceasing 

 or terminating of the land), belongs to Francisco de Hoces, who commanded 

 one of the ships of Loaysa's Expedition in 1525. He probably saw a part of 

 Tierra del Fuego west of Staaten Island ; for Cape Horn is, according to 

 Fitz-Roy, in 55 58' 41". Compare Navarrete, Viages y descubrim. de 

 los Espanoles, T. v. p. 28 and 404. 



C 142 ) p. 250. Humboldt, Examen crit. T. iv. p. 205, 295-316 ; T. v. p. 

 225-229 and 235 (Ideler, Sternnamen, S. 346). 



( 443 ) p. 250. Petrus Martyr Angl., Oceanica, Dec. III. lib. i. p. 217. I 

 can show, from the numerical data in Dec. II. lib. x. p. 204, and Dec. III. 

 lib. x. p. 232, that the part of the " Oceanica" in which the Magellauic Clouds 

 are mentioned was written between 1514 and 1516; therefore, immediately 

 after the Expedition of Juan Diaz de Solis to the Rio de la Plata (then called 

 "Rio de Solis, una mar dulce"). The latitude assigned is much too high. 



( 4 ) p. 251. Kosmos, Bd. ii. S. 329, Bd. iii. S. 151 and 175 ; Eng. ed. 

 Vol. ii. p. 290, Vol. iii. p. 94 and 117. 



(*) p. 252. Kosmos, Bd. i. S. 88 and 387, Anm. 2 ; Eng. ed. p. 76 and 

 xv. Note 32. Compare, in Cape Observations, 143-164, the Magellariic 

 Clouds as they appear to the naked eye, PI. vii. ; telescopic analysis of the 



