Notable & Famous Explorers Posters and Prints, pg 2/8
for social studies teachers and home schoolers, theme decor in office.

The astrolabe, an astronomical instrument, was the chief navigation instrument until the compass in the 12th century and the invention of the sextant in the 18th century. The astrolabe was used to locate and predict the positions of the Sun, Moon, planets and stars; determine local time given local longitude and vice-versa; surveying; and triangulation. In the Islamic world, they were used primarily for astronomical studies. Astrolabes were also used by astrologers to construct horoscopes.

• Time and Astrolabe in the Canterbury Tales

Navigation Compass

• Time and Astrolabe in the Canterbury Tales

Discovering the Potato -
The first Europeans to see the potato was Pedro de Cieza de Leon (1518–1560) Spanish Conquistador and historian, in 1540. Sir Walter Raleigh introduced the potato, a food that was considered fit only for the poor, to Ireland in 1589.

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The Eagle Has Landed Wall Poster-

"Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." Buzz Aldrin

“That’s one small step for a man,
one giant leap for mankind.” Neil Armstrong

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Roald Amundsen
b. 7-16-1872; Norway
d. c 6-18-1928; plane crash during an attempted rescue

Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian polar explorer, led the first successful Antarctic expedition to the South Pole between 1910 and 1912. Amundsen and a co-explorer, Oscar Adolf Wisting, may also be the first persons to be at both North and South poles.

• The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912

Diego de Almagro
b. c. 1475; Spain
d. 7-8-1538; Cuzco, Peru

Spanish conquistador Diego de Almagro, who became a rival of Francisco Pizarro, is credited as the first European discoverer of Chile.

• History of How the Spaniards Arrived in Peru

Francisco de Almeida
b. c. 1450; Lisbon, Portugal
d. 3-1-1510; Cape of Good Hope

Francisco de Almeida, a Portuguese nobleman, soldier and explorer was appointed as the first governor and viceroy of the Portuguese State of India (Estado da Índia).

• India & Portugal: Cultural Interactions

Pedro de Alvarado
b. c. 1495; Spain
d. 7-4-1541; Guadalajara, New Spain

Pedro de Alvarado, a Spanish conquistador and second in command to Cortes, was known for his skill as a soldier. His wife, Beatriz de la Cueva de Ubeda, succeeded his governorship of Guatemala after his death; she died several month later during the September 1541 eruption of the Guatemalan "de Agua" volcano.

• Pedro de Alvarado, Conquistador

Roy Chapman Andrews
b. 1-26-1884; Beloit, Wisconsin
d. 3-11-1960; California

Roy Chapman Andrews, explorer, adventurer and naturalist, wrote “I was born to be an explorer. . . There was never any decision to make. I couldn't do anything else and be happy.” Chapman was the first to discover fosselized dinosaur eggs in Mongolia; he was also became the director of the American Museum of Natural History after his beginning position was a janitor in the taxidermy department.

• Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews and the Central Asiatic Expeditions

Lewis and Clark Map, the Corps of Discovery Fine Art Poster

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