Unit 4:: Worlds Entangled
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Unit 4: Worlds Entangled
https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844605.book.part.016

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Abstract

The popular imagination that has Christopher Columbus setting out westward into the Atlantic to prove that the world was spherical rather than flat is simply historical legend. In fact, contemporary scholars knew very well that the world was round; the main point of contention between Columbus and his detractors was that Columbus thought the world was quite a bit smaller than the majority of European scholars held it to be.

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