This 1491 map is the best surviving map of the world as Christopher Columbus knew it as he made his first voyage across the Atlantic. In fact, Columbus likely used a copy of it in planning his journey. Notice the wall around the continents. The map clearly shows the Earth is flat according to their perspective.
History books say when Columbus made landfall in the West Indies on October 12, 1492, he began looking for Japan, still believing that he’d achieved his goal of finding a route to Asia. How can this be true if his map had a wall? How could he plan a trip to Asia with a wall blocking his path on the map he used?
History books say when Columbus made landfall in the West Indies on October 12, 1492, he began looking for Japan, still believing that he’d achieved his goal of finding a route to Asia. How can this be true if his map had a wall? How could he plan a trip to Asia with a wall blocking his path on the map he used?
500 year old map used by Columbus
Is there anyone so foolish, as to believe [in] people who walk with their heels upward, and their head hanging down?”
(One of the Catholic geographers supposedly exclaimed when Columbus told him the Earth was a circle and not a flat line, according to History.com)
The history regarding Flat Earth and Round Earth contradicts itself.
- First, in the 1490's, Columbus planned his trip on a Flat Earth map but history says he knew the Earth was round, while other sources say he thought the Earth was was flat?
- Second, a Catholic Geographer mocked a man for saying the the Earth was a circle even though he planned his trip with a Flat Earth map surrounded by a wall?
The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
In 1828, Washington Irving published The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. Irving's inspiration came after his friend, Alexander Hill Everett, the United States’ minister to Spain, invited Irving to stay with him in Madrid.
While visiting the city, Irving was tempted by a gigantic archive of documents about Columbus and decided to write the explorer’s biography.
Courtesy Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Washington Irving was one of the most famous American authors of the nineteenth century. While he is primarily remembered for short stories such as “Rip van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” he also penned an extensive biography of George Washington.
Washington Irving is known for being the Author to the Biography of George Washington which is noted as historical text with the Library of Congress.
In the book The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, Irving writes that Columbus set out to explore and it was the voyages of Columbus that finally convinced Europeans of his time that the Earth is not flat.
This is discredited by many as false even though the literature is recognized and kept with the United States Library of Congress as historical text.
In order to confirm the Earth is a globe or sphere, one must go up and verify for self. The first air plane was invented by the Wright Brothers of North Carolina in 1903 when the Wrights took flight for the first time in the 1903 Wright Flyer.
While visiting the city, Irving was tempted by a gigantic archive of documents about Columbus and decided to write the explorer’s biography.
Courtesy Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Washington Irving was one of the most famous American authors of the nineteenth century. While he is primarily remembered for short stories such as “Rip van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” he also penned an extensive biography of George Washington.
Washington Irving is known for being the Author to the Biography of George Washington which is noted as historical text with the Library of Congress.
In the book The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, Irving writes that Columbus set out to explore and it was the voyages of Columbus that finally convinced Europeans of his time that the Earth is not flat.
This is discredited by many as false even though the literature is recognized and kept with the United States Library of Congress as historical text.
In order to confirm the Earth is a globe or sphere, one must go up and verify for self. The first air plane was invented by the Wright Brothers of North Carolina in 1903 when the Wrights took flight for the first time in the 1903 Wright Flyer.
1903 Wright Flyer
The concept of a sphere planet was adopted long before we were able to fly. This would be like determining what type of engine a car has without opening up the hood to check and verify what type of engine it really is.
The main question to all of this is, Why?
Could this be a way of keeping people in the dark about something so vivid for nefarious reasons? Make us search for truth on a concept that was built on a lie? Are we like the dog, running in circles chasing its own tail?
SOURCES:
The main question to all of this is, Why?
Could this be a way of keeping people in the dark about something so vivid for nefarious reasons? Make us search for truth on a concept that was built on a lie? Are we like the dog, running in circles chasing its own tail?
SOURCES:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Irving
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Hill_Everett
- https://www.history.com/news/christopher-columbus-never-set-out-to-prove-the-earth-was-round
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_Earth
