Talk:Columbus' Failure

Columbus got to that island second. He'd discovered the Bahamas weeks before.

For Magellan to get to the Philippines, he'd have to have already went around the world.

And, no one ever believed that the world was flat. Amazes me that people actually fall for that. What was actually thought was that Columbus - rightly so - was a fool, and had misjudged the distance to Asia by half. Not that they thought it was flat, but that he was incapable of math.

Lordganon 05:20, December 7, 2011 (UTC)