Note 385 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

These were the calculations of Regiomontanus (Müller), who calls himself “Monteregius” in his Tabulæ astronomice Alfonsi regis, published at Venice in the very year (1492) of Columbus’ first voyage. (Stevens, Bibl. Geog., no. 83.) At a later day the Portuguese accused the Spaniards of altering the tables then in use, so as to affect the position of the Papal line of Demarcation. Barras, quoted by Humboldt, Cosmos, Eng. tr. ii. 671.