tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post4626985359987660788..comments2024-03-29T05:33:43.878-04:00Comments on Murder is Everywhere: The Men Who Discovered AmericaOvidia Yuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749549092493567689noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-12715955031577511372014-08-14T20:39:02.017-04:002014-08-14T20:39:02.017-04:00Dear Annamaria Alfieri, I address my condolences a...Dear Annamaria Alfieri, I address my condolences about Mr Leighton Gage departure from our world, as well I wish all his colleagues a happy and enrichment lifetime.<br /><br />Petrus Nonius (Pedro Nunes in portuguese), graduated in Medicine by Salamanca University, teacher of Kings and Popes in astronomy, astrology, cosmology, math, logic, ethic...among other disciplines, calculated not only accurate distances and produced detailed maps, as well he changed the way the world was seen since Ptolemy, he even helped Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler by correcting some of their studies. His teachings still in use today by air, sea and space traffic and cruisers.<br />It's not a well known name among historians, even his personal life stills mysterious, only his books and studies are spread all over the world, as well the measure scale called Nonio (latin derivation of his name, worldwide called Vernier Scale...which is curious once Vernier presented his study more than 100 years after Nunes).<br /><br />If any of you have the chance to visit Jeronimus Monastery in Lisbon with eyes able to the invisible (not as tourists), it would be a great opportunity to clarify your doubts about what we know as "Discoveries", once there's a lot of the world history made and encrypted in stone.<br /><br />ps: Phoenicians were great sea travelers, probably greater than the tribes from Pacific islands...from what we know till now.<br /><br />Cheers<br />BAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738720353251911069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-24629400848100342892014-08-14T06:53:56.977-04:002014-08-14T06:53:56.977-04:00Thank you for this comment, Bartolomeu. I am sorr...Thank you for this comment, Bartolomeu. I am sorry to say that the author of this blog post, our dear colleague Leighton Gage passed away just a little over a year ago.<br /><br />As for me, I find it astonishing that those early cartographers were able to make accurate maps at all, since they could not even calculate longitude. What courage! What skill and determination!Annamaria Alfierihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12311596277267789834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-88579532603873491882014-08-13T23:54:31.421-04:002014-08-13T23:54:31.421-04:00If it helps your curiosity, first sea great travel...If it helps your curiosity, first sea great travelers were not nordics but mediterraneans. Then 'New World' has a meaning, Christopher Columbus which the right name to pronounce is 'Cristobal Colon' has another meaning, besides this he was not Genovese, not even the crew was spanish. By the way, Petrus Nonius de Salacia presented well detailed world maps with an accuracy that today GPS are not able to perform, maps where Australia, North and SOuth pole, Pacific coast, Indic coast as others coasts are well indicated. You may star the quest. Cheers.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738720353251911069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-36287053188550441222012-04-23T16:35:05.246-04:002012-04-23T16:35:05.246-04:00My God, we're lucky Cabral did not have GPS or...My God, we're lucky Cabral did not have GPS or Brazil still might not have been discovered. Viva the bad sense of direction!Jeffrey Sigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00718317707555064653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-81158733524011877952012-04-23T11:14:34.295-04:002012-04-23T11:14:34.295-04:00In the old days we actually had geography books th...In the old days we actually had geography books that were independent of our history books. The term "social studies" was not yet in use.<br /><br />We learned about Prince Henry the Navigator and the search for Prester John and we were, of course, fascinated by the idea of a lost kingdom. (That was just as fascinating as the mystery behind the disappearance of the settlers on Roanoke Island including Virginia Dare, the first child of English parents born on Roanoke Island which is now part of North Carolina). Vasco Da Gama and Bartholomeu Dias were also held up as heroes.<br /><br />This is not surprising in that I attended a Catholic school. The motives for exploration were somewhat cynically given as "God, Gold, and Glory". The period of exploration occurred before the Reformation so the Catholic rulers of Spain and Portugal got the blessing of the pope for setting out to find souls to convert. God got top billing but <br />gold and glory were the real motivators.<br /><br />These men were undoubtedly courageous as they sailed into the unknown. The astronauts were tethered to earth by the voices coming from Cape Canaveral.Bethhttp://www.murderbytype.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-22250562472474566322012-04-23T00:29:10.576-04:002012-04-23T00:29:10.576-04:00I keep thinking of the courage, and determination ...I keep thinking of the courage, and determination it took to make these journeys. I'm sure that the rewards were great, but these boats were exactly the Queen Mary. I also wonder-which I should look up- what happened to the Portuguese who did so much exploring. Lovely post.lil Glucksternhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09288522126331817172noreply@blogger.com