1498

Explore 1 quote from the year 1498

I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the North Star from north to south.

Christopher Columbus

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Topic

Curvature of the earth The earth

Author

Christopher Columbus

Medium

Letter

Language

Spanish

Time

1498 1490s 15th century

Era

Age of Exploration

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Columbus, Christopher. Letter to the Sovereigns on the Third Voyage. Oct. 1498.

Current Citation

Columbus, Christopher. "Narrative of the third voyage of Christopher Columbus to the Indies, in which he discovered the mainland, dispatched to the sovereigns from the island of hispanola." The Four Voyages, translated by J. M. Cohen. Penguin Classics, 1992.