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Columbus knew where he was going. And would have died trying to get there, if he hadn't serendipitously run into something else, first.
by msbarnett 16y ago
Columbus knew where he was going. And would have died trying to get there, if he hadn't serendipitously run into something else, first.
- l0nwlf 16y agoBut he misjudged that something else (America) with his original destination (India). Quoting from wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus): "Amerigo Vespucci's travel journals, published 1502-4, convinced Martin Waldseemüller that the discovered place was not India, as Columbus always believed, but a new continent"