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:::Which part of Australia? That's like asking what time it is in America. In the eastern states where I am, it is currently 9:11 p.m. [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 07:11, 7 April 2007 (EDT)
:::Which part of Australia? That's like asking what time it is in America. In the eastern states where I am, it is currently 9:11 p.m. [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 07:11, 7 April 2007 (EDT)
==Columbus==
When Columbus presented his theory of sailing around the world, he was laughed out of the room. This was NOT because people thought the world was flat. Most educated people (that includes scholars, kings, clergy and academia) '''knew''' the world was round. In fact, they knew the circumference of the globe. Columbus' tried to mathematically show that China was located at the point where he expected to find make landfall in the West Indies. This was regarded as preposterous by well-educated people because he had vastly underestimated the size of the world.
This is well-documented in a book (who's title I don't remember) as part of a theory that Columbus had a map of the new world. I don't remember the book's name, but it's probably [http://www.marcopolovoyages.com/Articles/NewFoundLandBase.html one of these references].