Columbus Quotes

“For a man burning to venture into the unknown, this spell of enforced idleness was torment.”
― Kevin Jackson, Columbus: the Accidental Hero

“At the end of the Cosmographiae, Waldseemüller included a number of woodblock prints that could be removed and pasted together to form a large map. At the top of it, an allegorical portrait of Ptolemy faced east, while ‘Americus Vespucius’ faced west. It was the first map to show the two Americas connected by a land bridge, and separated from Asia by a new ocean. The overall proportions were wrong, but the contour of the eastern coast of South America was fairly accurate. And along that coastline, he placed the word AMERICA.”
― Kevin Jackson, Columbus: the Accidental Hero