The Story of The Atlantic Telegraph : 9781517650452

When Columbus sailed from the shores of Spain, it was not in search of a New World, but only to find a nearer path to the East. He sought a western passage to India. He had adopted a traditionary belief that the earth was round; but he did not once dream of another continent than the three which had been the ancient abodes of the human race-Europe, Asia, and Africa. All the rest was the great deep. The Florentine sage Toscanelli, from his knowledge of the world so far as then discovered, had made a chart, on which the eastern coast of Asia was represented as lying opposite to the western coast of both Europe and Africa.

Author: Henry M. Field

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Oct 04, 2015

Number of Pages: 222 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1517650453

ISBN-13: 9781517650452