Hi, Lee Lofaso!
I read your message from 01.05.2019 16:48

  BF>>>>> Needless to say, obviously he was well aware of the fact that
  BF>>>>> the Sun is the center of our solar system and the Earth is
  BF>>>>> 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.

  ak>> It was a lie.
  LL> We know very little about Columbus. Where he was from, what he
  LL> looked like, and other details. All we can tell for sure is that he
  LL> was raised by a couple in Genoa, Italy. Not that the couple was
  LL> ever his parents. What they chose to call him is the name he was
  LL> known by, not that he was who people thought he was.

  ak>> The distance from Spain to New York is 5.5 thousand kilometers,
  ak>> and Columbus counted on the distance like that.

  LL> Columbus believed the Earth was shaped by a pear. Also, it should
  LL> be realized he was brought up in Genoa around the same time that
  LL> Marco Polo returned from China. It would only be natural that he
  LL> would want to return to the land of his birth, given the chance.

The size of the Earth was calculated 2000 years before Columbus, by 
ancient Greeks. I repeat, that it is a trivial task.

Bye, Lee!
Alexander Koryagin
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