Hi, Lee Lofaso!
I read your message from 30.04.2019 20:25

  LL> Hello Ward,
  BF>>> Needless to say, obviously he was well aware of the
  BF>>> fact that the Sun is the center of our solar system and
  BF>>> the Earth is revolving around it, 2500 years before
  BF>>> Copernicus "rediscovered" that fact.
  WD>> It's a bit like Columbus discovering the Americas.
  LL> He was trying to get back home to China.

It was a lie. The distance from  Spain to New York is 5.5 thousand 
kilometers, and Columbus counted on the distance like that. The distance 
from New York to China is another 14 thousand kilometers. The errors is 
too much to be the mistake in calculations, taking into account that it 
is possible to calculate the sphericity of Earth using very simple 
tools. Columbus knew where China or India were to the west of Spain, and 
he searched for another land. It is interesting where he heard of it. 
The answer can probably explain why Columbus hid his source. ;-)

Bye, Lee!
Alexander Koryagin
fido7.fidonews 2019
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