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Secret of How Columbus Discovered the New World
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 |
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