[GCFL-discuss] [GCFL.net] Columbus

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You're always throwing some reality toward us, aren't you? Well, barely any of it hits me, and what does often fails to stick. Keep trying, though.
Red

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"Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List" <gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net> wrote:

>I hate to be a kill-joy (no, that's a lie, I love it), but Columbus was
>not particularly original in realizing that the world is round. A Greek
>living in Egypt circa 500 BC had figured out its circumference,
>Aristotle, although he thought the world was at the center of the
>universe, understood it was round, and most Christian scholars understood
>the world was round. Columbus thought it was a much shorter distance from
>Europe to Asia than it actually is, and he was wrong. He never did
>realize he had discovered a whole new continent.
>
>Now the notion that the earth revolves around the sun, that raised some
>hackles for a few centuries. But that had nothing to do with Columbus.
>
>The origin of the "everyone thought the earth was flat except Columbus"
>myth may be traceable to Washington Irving, who made up some stories
>about Columbus as a patriotic gesture. Columbus had been half-forgotten
>until the infant United States of America began writing its own legend,
>and some literati like Irvine dredged Columbup up as an original American
>hero.
>
>Not that Columbus was sailing to find a land where liberty could flourish
>or anything like that... he was a devoted servant of Their Most Catholic
>Majesties, the King and Queen of Spain.
>
>Siarlys
>(who else?)
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