Antillia and Saint Brendan

Friday 28 April

Christopher Columbus (Christophorus Columbus) assumed that the westward distance from Europe to Japan was much smaller than even his contemporaries thought. And this mistake should have killed him and all the people under his command. As we know the American continent saved him.

Simeon Netchev made a great map showing the differences between what Columbus thought he knew (including the fictional islands of Antillia and Saint Brendan) and the what was actually the case.