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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS HOME PRIVACY ARCHIVE
Christopher Columbus
Posted by news on Monday, 3 October, 2011, 11:58 AM
Tourists walk by the tomb of Spanish explorer
Christopher Columbus in the Cathedral of Seville,
Spain. Spanish researchers recently determined that
Columbus' remains are indeed buried in the tomb,
based on DNA results. Another Columbus tomb is
located ...
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Tourists walk by the tomb of Spanish
explorer Christopher Columbus in the Cathedral of Seville, Spain. Spanish
researchers recently determined that Columbus' remains are indeed buried in the
tomb, based on DNA results. Another Columbus tomb is located in the Dominican
Republic, but DNA tests have not been conducted on the remains buried there.
Print Font: +-Monday is Columbus Day, time to buy appliances on sale and
contemplate other things that have nothing to do with Christopher Columbus. So
much of what we say about Columbus is either wholly untrue or greatly exaggerated.
Pythagoras in the sixth century B.C. was one of the originators of the idea. Aristotle in
the fourth century B.C. provided the physical evidence, such as the shadow of the
Earth on the moon and the curvature of the Earth known by all sailors approaching
land. And by the third century B.C., Eratosthenes determined our planet's shape and
circumference using basic geometry. In the second century, Claudius Ptolemy wrote
the "Almagest," the mathematical and astronomical treatise on planetary shapes and
motions, describing the spherical Earth. This text was well known throughout
educated Europe in Columbus' time. [Related: Earth Is Flat in Many People's Minds]
Columbus, a self-taught man, greatly underestimated Earth's circumference. He also
thought Europe was wider than it actually was and that Japan was farther from the
coast of China than it really was. For these reasons, he figured he could reach Asia
by going west, a concept that most of educated Europe at the time thought was 1:06:55 AM
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- 1. googletrend.buzzshopstore.com enter keywords here... CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS HOME PRIVACY ARCHIVE Christopher Columbus Posted by news on Monday, 3 October, 2011, 11:58 AM Tourists walk by the tomb of Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus in the Cathedral of Seville, Spain. Spanish researchers recently determined that Columbus' remains are indeed buried in the tomb, based on DNA results. Another Columbus tomb is located ... Share | Christopher Columbus Posted by news on Monday, 3 October, 2011, 11:58 AM AutosMy MSNVideoCareers & JobsPersonalsWeatherDelishQuotesWhite PagesGamesReal EstateWonderwallHoroscopesShoppingYellow PagesLocal EditionTrafficFeedbackMaps & DirectionsTravelFull MSN IndexBingmsnbc.com sites & shows: Tourists walk by the tomb of Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus in the Cathedral of Seville, Spain. Spanish researchers recently determined that Columbus' remains are indeed buried in the tomb, based on DNA results. Another Columbus tomb is located in the Dominican Republic, but DNA tests have not been conducted on the remains buried there. Print Font: +-Monday is Columbus Day, time to buy appliances on sale and contemplate other things that have nothing to do with Christopher Columbus. So much of what we say about Columbus is either wholly untrue or greatly exaggerated. Pythagoras in the sixth century B.C. was one of the originators of the idea. Aristotle in the fourth century B.C. provided the physical evidence, such as the shadow of the Earth on the moon and the curvature of the Earth known by all sailors approaching land. And by the third century B.C., Eratosthenes determined our planet's shape and circumference using basic geometry. In the second century, Claudius Ptolemy wrote the "Almagest," the mathematical and astronomical treatise on planetary shapes and motions, describing the spherical Earth. This text was well known throughout educated Europe in Columbus' time. [Related: Earth Is Flat in Many People's Minds] Columbus, a self-taught man, greatly underestimated Earth's circumference. He also thought Europe was wider than it actually was and that Japan was farther from the coast of China than it really was. For these reasons, he figured he could reach Asia by going west, a concept that most of educated Europe at the time thought was 1:06:55 AM Generated by www.PDFonFly.com at 10/11/2011 daft URL: http://GoogleTrend.BuzzShopstore.com/Christopher-columbus/