But he misjudged that something else (America) with his original destination (India). Quoting from wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus http

But 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"