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once sufficient firsthand knowledge reached Europe from early attempts at
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settlement and from further exploration, both the cartographical Norumbega
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and the tales associated with it entirely disappeared."[@KirsNor98, 35]
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- Except by Horsford and others in the later 18th.
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- "Many Renaissance cosmographers subscribed to the philosophy of natural
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harmony. It rested on the idea that the physical world was governed by laws
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ensuring perfect equilibrium."[@KirsNor98, 35]
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- Cartography wasn't really a science, had philosophical aspects as well.
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- "Accordingly, when Europeans heard about the New World, they anticipated that
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it would contain at least an embryonic counterpart of features of the
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geography and human behaviour of the Old World."[@KirsNor98, 35]
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- **Europeans went to the New World looking for the Old**, for what they had
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known and what was familiar.
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