Posted on 10/06/2021 5:25:40 PM PDT by Salman
That sounds spurious because sailors were travelling well down south along the African coast. It was when they were travelling West that they had no landfall and many of them never returned.
There was evidence the Phoenicians returned from American lands but their dominance of the Mediterranean was short-lived and they didn’t have good enough navigation tools to land in the same place twice.
Columbus didn’t think that until his third voyage, per the Wikipedia link you posted.
Such a model had first been theorized by Christopher Columbus on his third voyage. Making observations with a quadrant, he “regularly saw the plumb line fall to the same point,” instead of moving respectively to his ship, and subsequently hypothesized that the planet is pear-shaped.[9]
The Frozen Echo, Greenland and the Exploration of North America ca A.D. 1000-1500, Kirsten A. Seaver
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He would had to have known - he was sailing to the East Indies!
Turns out, he wasn’t after the east indies, he was conducting the first panty raid, seeking the east undies. Total perv.
Every sea captain worth his sextant knew the Earth was round.................
He never saw North America, Just South...............
If the Earth is flat, why doesn’t all the water in the oceans run off?..............
Because there's an icewall all the way around. As to why the ice doesn't fall off... /jk
On his fourth voyage, in 1502, Columbus sailed along the coast of Central America from Honduras to Panama.
Even those who used the astrolabe knew it.
The sextant came along right after the quintant.
And before that, the Quadrant...............
And in the days of Poseidon, the tridant, er, trident.
And before that the ever popular BiDent..................
Was Christopher Columbus in Greenland 15 years before he discovered America?
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Posted on 6/12/2015, 6:01:02 PM by SunkenCiv
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Eventually they’ll be using the Polident.
And Fixodent.......................
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