The Renaissance and the golden age of exploration brought forth a stricter regime and hot-off-the-deck maps from Portuguese and Spanish explorers.
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The later Age of Exploration was made possible by this Medieval innovation.
Their use revolutionized trade and ushered in an age of exploration.
We truly are in a New Golden Age of Exploration!
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It's a far cry from the golden age of exploration, when daring men set sail into the unknown, fearful they might suddenly drop off the edge of the world.
They are, depending on your perspective, either pursuing the ultimate vanity project or are on the forefront of a new age of exploration that harkens back to the great adventurers of centuries past when men (and they were nearly all men) ventured into the vast blank spots on the world map.
Polar historian and author Dr Huw Lewis-Jones thinks this reenactment is an excellent way of resussitating interested in the early 20th century period known as the "Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration".
We live in the gilded age of self-involvement, not exploration.
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When Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin traveled to outer space, he opened up a whole new age in space travel and exploration for the rest of the world.
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Such age differentiation assists the interpretation of the geology and thus helps to guide mineral exploration.
Still, beneath the pop-provocateur veneer, Sachs has always maintained a childlike awe of the golden age of industrial might and technology, most recently in his fascination with space exploration.
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