The second reason that inspired the Admiral [Columbus] to launch
his enterprise and helped justify his giving the name 'Indies' to
the lands which he discovered was the authority of many learned men
who said that one could sail westward from the western
end of Africa and Spain to the eastern end of India, and that no great
sea lay between.
-- Ferdinand Columbus, son of Christopher Columbus,
-- The Life of the Admiral Christopher Columbus, ca. 1539
his enterprise and helped justify his giving the name 'Indies' to
the lands which he discovered was the authority of many learned men
who said that one could sail westward from the western
end of Africa and Spain to the eastern end of India, and that no great
sea lay between.
-- Ferdinand Columbus, son of Christopher Columbus,
-- The Life of the Admiral Christopher Columbus, ca. 1539
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