リチャード・ヘンリー・メイジャー

リチャード・ヘンリー・メイジャー(Richard Henry Major、1818年10月3日1891年6月25日)は、地図専門の司書として、1844年から1880年に引退するまで大英博物館の地図の管理に当たっていた、イギリス地理学者

司書だった当時、メイジャーは地図や、重要な史料などを多数出版した。1849年から1858年にかけてはハクルイト協会英語版の事務長を務めた[1]

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  1. ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1893). "Major, Richard Henry" . Dictionary of National Biography (英語). Vol. 35. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. ^ von Herberstein, Baron Sigismund (1851). Major, Richard Henry. ed. Notes upon Russia: Being a Translation of the earliest Account of that Country, entitled Rerum Muscoviticarum commentarii. London: The Hakluyt Society. https://books.google.com/books?id=UghDAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover 2015年3月21日閲覧。 
  3. ^ Major, Richard Henry, ed (1859). Early voyages to Terra Australia, now called Australia. London: The Hakluyt Society. https://books.google.com/books?id=jQlDAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover 2015年3月21日閲覧。 
  4. ^ Major, Richard Henry (1861). The Discovery of Australia by the Portuguese in 1601: Five Years Before the Earliest Discovery Hitherto Recorded : with Arguments in Favour of a Previous Discovery by the Same Nation, Early in the Sixteenth Century. London: J.B. Nicholls and Sons. https://books.google.com/books?id=wfhBAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover 2015年3月21日閲覧。 
  5. ^ Major, Richard Henry (1865) (pdf). Memoir on a mappemonde by Leonardo da Vinci, being the earliest map hitherto known containing the name of America, now in the Royal Collection at Windsor.. London: J.B. Nicholls and Sons. https://ia700408.us.archive.org/25/items/cu31924029955550/cu31924029955550.pdf 2015年3月21日閲覧。 
  6. ^ Major, Richard Henry (1868). The life of Prince Henry of Portugal surnamed the navigator and its results: Comprising the discovery, within one century, of half the world. With new facts in the discovery of the Atlantic Islands. A refutation of French claims to priority in discovery. Portuguese Knowledge (subsequently lost) of the Nile lakes; and the history of the naming of America. London: A. Asher & Co. https://books.google.com/books?id=x249AAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover 2015年3月21日閲覧。 
  7. ^ Zeno, Niccolò (1873). Major, Richard Henry. ed. The voyages of the Venetian brothers, Nicolò & Antonio Zeno, to the northern seas in the XIVth century : comprising the latest known accounts of the lost colony of Greenland and of the Northmen in America before Columbus. London: The Hakluyt Society. https://archive.org/details/voyagesofvenetia00zenorich 2015年3月21日閲覧。 
  8. ^ Major, Richard Henry (1857). India in the fifteenth century : being a collection of narratives of voyages to India, in the century preceding the Portuguese discovery of the Cape of Good Hope; from Latin, Persian, Russian, and Italian sources, now first translated into English. London: The Hakluyt Society. https://archive.org/details/indiainfifteenth00majorich 2015年3月21日閲覧。 

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