Henry Harrisse

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Henry Harrisse during the second half of the nineteenth century

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Prime sharing of modern worlds, Treaty of Tordesillas, 1494. Henry Harisse, The diplomatic history of America.

Henry Harisse (1829 - May 1, 1910), is a man of letters, art critic, lawyer and Americanist historian, author of many books on the first discoveries of America and geographic representations of the New World.

Biography

Henry Harisse was born in Paris May 28, 1829, Abraham, furrier, probably from Russia or Prague, and Nanine Marcus, Paris Very young, he moved to his American family and takes the nationality of the country. He studied at the University of South Carolina and began his academic career at the University of North Carolina. He teaches letters, philosophy and law? According to his biographer Henri Cordier his early writings are devoted to Taine and Renan and it would have annotated the works of metaphysical Descartes. But the turn of his mind focused on the study of the origins of modern America s and he gave himself ardently. This will lead to the exploration of the archives of the discovery of the Americas and achieving a critical and complete historical Oevre of this object.

Bibliography

The work of Henry Harisse is published in English and/or French:

• Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima: A Description of Works Relating to America.
• Notes on Columbus (1866)
• Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima (1866)
• Jean et Sébastien Cabot (1882)
• Études d'histoire critique. Christophe Colomb : son origine, sa vie, ses voyages, sa famille et ses descendants (1884)
• Discovery of North America (1892)

See also

• Leonardo's world map
• Octant projection
• Waterman butterfly projection