Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D.

That is as explained in Chapter I. , it has been attempted to treat Exploration as one continuous thread in the story of Christian Europe from the time of the conversion of the Empire and to treat the life of Prince Henry as the turning-point the central epoch in a development of many centuries: this life accordingly has been linked as closely as possible with what went before and prepared for it, one third of the text, at least has been occupied with the history of the preparation of the earlier time and the difference between our account of the eleventh-and fifteenth-century Discovery for instance will be found to be chiefly one of less and greater detail.