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Essay heading: Christopher Columbus Bio
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Columbus had a different idea. By the 1480s, he had developed a plan to travel to the Indies (then construed roughly as all of south and east Asia) by sailing directly west across the "Ocean Sea" (the Atlantic).
It is sometimes claimed that Columbus had difficulty obtaining support for his plan because Europeans believed that the earth was flat...
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In fact, few people at the time of Columbus?s voyage (and virtually no sailors or navigators) believed this. Most agreed the earth is a sphere. Columbus?s arguments hinged on the circumference of that sphere.
Eratosthenes (276-194 BC) had already, in ancient Alexandrian times, accurately calculated the Earth's circumference...
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