Ultimate Power #7

[history79]

Written by Jeph Loeb, Art by Greg Land

7 pages of 24

Comments

[sagrada]

The Classical Greek mathematician Ptolemy worked it out too, and his works detailing the matter were a staple of Medieval and Renaissance learning. Things were slowed by geocentrism, not ignorance of the Earth's curving.

Cristobal's voyage was even undertaken based on flaws in his math, he thought that the Earth was smaller than the Scientific Establishment of the day had figured on, and only good luck got him to San Salvador before catastrophe. He was certainly braver and more resourceful and passionate than me, but he was no genius visionary.