Secret of How Columbus Discovered the New World
Jack Linthicum wrote:
Walt wrote:
jcon wrote:
Huh!?!? The compass was commonly used by Europeans for
navigation for at least 200 years before Columbus, and in China
for a couple hundred years before that - possibly longer.
The compass goes back to ancient Greece, where mathematicians like
Euclid used it to draw circles and bisect line segments.
//Walt
There were strong rumors that Columbus used his compass to bisect
Isabella
He used it to protact-er
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