New world, sail, ping.
Vikings and Native Americans were first. Columbus was first recognized by the main stream media of the time. Ever heard of Erick the Red? Where did all the Viking settlements come form?
Humans have been able to follow coastlines in small boats for 40,000+ years and open ocean waters for at least 30,000 years this is well proven in not only the orient but also the Pacific indigenous groups. Europeans at the time were as technologically advanced or more so during the last ice age. The Pre-Clovis points are a dead match for what the Northern Spaniards were making and stone technology is passed from human to human each culture had unique points and tools that was passed on the the next generation.
Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America’s Clovis Culture
"Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America’s Clovis Culture. The book puts forward a compelling case for people from northern Spain traveling to America by boat, following the edge of a sea ice shelf that connected Europe and America during the last Ice Age, 14,000 to 25,000 years ago."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_I_Sinclair,_Earl_of_Orkney
Time to brush the dust off the supposed voyage of Henry Sinclair and to look again at the medieval port of Bristol.
Columbus’ explorations can be counted as the beginning of regular trade, empire expansion and settlement of the Americas by Europeans. Not “discovery”. And as a navigator, he was lame. His belief that the world was round, was not controversial - it was the size he calculated the globe to be. According to his calculations, India should have been near Florida.
Columbus’ explorations can be counted as the beginning of regular trade, empire expansion and settlement of the Americas by Europeans. Not “discovery”. And as a navigator, he was lame. His belief that the world was round, was not controversial - it was the size he calculated the globe to be. According to his calculations, India should have been near Florida.
... as in "find the fountain of youth", "find Ecalibur" or "find the missing link". This is inductive reasoning, not knowledge. The banker's notation implies nothing. Even if they did know about the new land, why would they set out to "trovare" it? This appears to be stretching a point in a search for more grant money.
There were various medieval legends about explorations (such as by St. Brendan). Even if those didn't happen, people in the 1400s might have thought they were real and acted accordingly.
A couple of Genoese explorers sailed west in 1291 and were never heard from again--did they make it across the Atlantic and get eaten by Caribs? Did they founder somewhere mid-ocean? No one knows what happened to them.