Oh for goodness sake.
You ARE joking, right? The educated Catholics knew the earth was round. They also had a pretty decent idea of its size. And so they knew that the westward route to “the Indies” would be very long indeed.
> Oh for goodness sake.
You ARE joking, right? The educated Catholics knew the earth was round. They also had a pretty decent idea of its size. And so they knew that the westward route to “the Indies” would be very long indeed.
you forget not everyone had Internet access back in the day where they knew all these things nor did they have the telphones here they ould instantly communicate knowledge like this to one another... The ancient Greeks knew it long before the Catholics did...: )
Yup. All educated people had known the earth was spherical for at least 2000 years.
Columbus underestimated the size of the earth, and overestimated the width of Asia.
The pundits at court were much closer to the actual distances involved and pointed out that Chris would run out of supplies long before he reached Japan.
They were quite right. If America hadn’t been in the way, CC and all his sailors would have died and the Crown’s investment would have been lost.