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.)
To: BitWielder1
He had the right latitude for India, but had no clue how big the Earth was. His intent was to find a quick way to get to India, so he did what Climatologists do today, he declared it to be India.......................
32 posted on
06/12/2015 12:43:15 PM PDT by
Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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