To: Red Badger
Didn't Columbus believe he was going to India?
If he was using this map, he would have known India was far from the first landmass he would reach.
28 posted on
06/12/2015 12:16:21 PM PDT by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: BitWielder1
He believed, or so it is said, that one could sail west to get to India rather than go around Africa, and it would be quicker. He grossly underestimated the diameter of the Earth...............
29 posted on
06/12/2015 12:21:51 PM PDT by
Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: BitWielder1; Red Badger
He had consulted Icelanders, in Iceland, and knew of the relative proximity of landmasses to the west, which had previously been found, landed upon, and even somewhat colonized, by the Vikings. It was a reasonable conclusion to reach, as he did, that Ptolemy had calculated the size of the Earth incorrectly; it would have been even MORE reasonable to conclude that Ptolemy et al had been dead wrong about the number of landmasses.
50 posted on
06/12/2015 3:04:21 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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