Today I Found Out

The Truth About Columbus and the Round Earth (2017x230)

Fecha de emisión: Sept 26, 2017

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our efforts, check out our Patreon page wher→… with a whole lot of maps and information about the very round Earth. Contrary to popular belief, not only did Columbus realize the world was round, so did his contemporaries. In fact, it was so well accepted that daring seafarers had been exploring the Atlantic for hundreds of years before Columbus’ time. Without a doubt, men of the early Renaissance knew the world was round, and that the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria were in no danger of sailing over the edge. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/05/people-in-columbus-time-did-not-think-the-world-was-flat/ Sources: http://www.historyguide.org/earlymod/lecture2c.html http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Scolumb.htm http://arabsinamerica.unc.edu/history/muslim-immigration/ http://www.mnh.si.edu/vikings/1137.html http://historyofislam.com/contents/the-classical-period/al-masudi/ http://sagadb.org/ http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.emersonkent.com/images/atlantic_north_1803.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.emersonkent.com/map_archive/atlantic_1803.htm&h=1720&w=2253&sz=625&tbnid=EoXhD2p_xjRewM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=118&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dmap%2Bof%2BAtlantic%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=map+of+Atlantic&usg=__5nr89zazMwnF5Kys9sh6q76Fvr8=&docid=RvlVL9zgwl0MaM&sa=X&ei=FF9-UdvWOajE4APIr4HoAg&ved=0CDMQ9QEwAQ&dur=521 http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/WI/WI-idx?type=HTML&rgn=div2&byte=1651610851 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/02/books/pacific-overtures.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm https://www.lib.umn.edu/apps/bell/map/PORTO/MYS/indexmy.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_Earth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_He#Zheng_He_map http://www.muslimheritage.com/topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=218 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_Flat_Earth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_colonization_of_the_Americas Image Credit: https://en.w