The Phenomenon of Christopher Columbus and the Discovery of America

Though America was discovered by Christopher Columbus 510 years ago, that discovery has a lot of obscurities, which make people to think. According to most scientific works, Ch. Columbus thought that, he had discovered East Asia. I tried to prove that, the Genoese seaman had got acquainted with the map of Nasiraddin Tusi when he was in Spain before his travel to the western part of the Atlantic Ocean and was aware of the existence of unknown territory there. Yes, Nasiraddin Tusi had...
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Though America was discovered by Christopher Columbus 510 years ago, that discovery has a lot of obscurities, which make people to think. According to most scientific works, Ch. Columbus thought that, he had discovered East Asia. I tried to prove that, the Genoese seaman had got acquainted with the map of Nasiraddin Tusi when he was in Spain before his travel to the western part of the Atlantic Ocean and was aware of the existence of unknown territory there. Yes, Nasiraddin Tusi had described America in his map together with its coordinates 220 years before Ch. Columbus's transatlantic travel. It is one of the most phenomenal discoveries of the world and Ch. Columbus is the author of this discovery.

Christopher Columbus didn't lose his courage and read a lot of scientific books in order to prepare for the expedition. He mainly read books on geography and cosmography. Besides it, he had Pliny's "Natural history" in an Italian translation published in 1489, works of Plutarch and Ptolemy. He made notes on several books as Pierre de Ailly's "Imaqo Mundi" ("World Map") and Enea Silvia Piccolomini's (is known as the Pope Pius II) "Historia rerum ubique Mundi" besides Marco Polo's book written in Latin, which is still kept in the Columbia Library of Seville. There are about 2125 notes made by him.