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The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)
Medieval Geography
Columbus, christopher, 1451-1506
Tropics
Europe, intellectual life
America, discovery and exploration
Navigation
Knowledge and learning
Discoveries in geography
Spanish
Knowledge
Discovery and exploration
Geography
Intellectual life
History
"Everyone knows that in 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed west across the Atlantic, seeking a new route to the East. Few note, however, that Columbus's intention was also to sail south, to the tropics. In The Tropics of Empire, Nicolas Wey Gomez rewrites the geographical history of the discovery of t…
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