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: Red Badger
Right, but even without the American continents in the way, according to this map the first land seen would not have been India.
Yet he thought he had reached India and he named the indigenous habitants "Indians".
That makes me wonder if Columbus was really using this map.
30 posted on
06/12/2015 12:32:07 PM PDT by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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