E alem do que dito he, ha experiencia, que he madre das cousas, nos desengana e de toda duuida nos tira.
• Variant translation: Experiment is the mother of realities, removes our errors and solves our doubts [and by the same method of experiment] we are able to protect ourselves against the delusions and fables that some ancient cosmographers have left us in writing." - Meaning and context.">
And beyond what has been said, experience, which is the mother of all things, undeceives us and removes all our doubts.
 • As quoted in Robertson The Hispanic American historical review, Vol 16 (1936), p. 325
  • As quoted in Welch Europe's discovery of South Africa (1937), p. 95
• cf. Esmeraldo de situ orbis, Book IV, ch. I, p. 152: Craramente se mostra ser falso o que escrevêram; poys debaixo da mesma equinocial há tanta habitaçam de jente, quanto teemos sabida e praticada; e como quer que a experiencia he madre das cousas, por ella soubemos rradicalmente a verdade.
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E alem do que dito he, ha experiencia, que he madre das cousas, nos desengana e de toda duuida nos tira.
• Variant translation: Experiment is the mother of realities, removes our errors and solves our doubts [and by the same method of experiment] we are able to protect ourselves against the delusions and fables that some ancient cosmographers have left us in writing.

— Duarte Pacheco Pereira

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "E alem do que dito he, ha experiencia, que he madre das cousas, nos desengana e de toda duuida nos tira.
• Variant translation: Experiment is the mother of realities, removes our errors and solves our doubts [and by the same method of experiment] we are able to protect ourselves against the delusions and fables that some ancient cosmographers have left us in writing." in the context of "And beyond what has been said, experience, which is the mother of all things, undeceives us and removes all our doubts.
 • As quoted in Robertson The Hispanic American historical review, Vol 16 (1936), p. 325
  • As quoted in Welch Europe's discovery of South Africa (1937), p. 95
• cf. Esmeraldo de situ orbis, Book IV, ch. I, p. 152: Craramente se mostra ser falso o que escrevêram; poys debaixo da mesma equinocial há tanta habitaçam de jente, quanto teemos sabida e praticada; e como quer que a experiencia he madre das cousas, por ella soubemos rradicalmente a verdade." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Duarte Pacheco Pereira

About Duarte Pacheco Pereira

Duarte Pacheco Pereira (c. 1460 – 1533) was a Portuguese explorer, navigator, conquistador, and cartographer. It is possible that he was the first to discover the mainland of America, in 1498.