Letters, Paolo Toscanelli maps and Columbus calculations
Ramiz Daniz
Broschiertes Buch

Letters, Paolo Toscanelli maps and Columbus calculations

Columbus mystery

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This 21st part of the series Popular Science Essays: Correspondence with Toscanelli and sending them maps to Portugal is being questioned by historians. They claim that Toscanelli was not at all a supporter of the Atlantic Ocean expedition. There is only a copy (rewritten by Columbus) of his letter, which says that from Lisbon "to the great and magnificent city of Kinshasa" (Chinese Hangzhou) - 26 times 250 miles, i.e. 6.5 thousand miles. Let's take the old Roman mile at 1481 meters and get the specified distance in kilometres - 9.6 thousand. In fact, from Lisbon to Hangzhou, west in a straigh...