How a Lunar Eclipse Saved Columbus

While "popular historical papers" state that Christopher Columbus was the first explorer in that area, in fact Columbus had a map which showed much of where he intended "exploring".

The map Columbus used, was the 1428 World Map, which showed the "East Indies" what later became Indonesia, Indian Ocean, and also the ocean routes to China and Asia by both the strait of Magellan, and the Cape of Good Hope.

That map was captured by the Ottomans in 1501, and Columbus never sailed south of the Equator.

The Ottoman Admiral Piri Reis included the captured information into the map of 1513, now called the Piri Reis map, which is presently located in the Topkapi Serai Museum in Istanbul.

The History books really need to be re-written, to actually include the facts.

Kind Regards....

Um, no, I don't think that's exactly it. Columbus never made it to the "east indies" because although he correctly surmised that he could sail west and eventually get to the "east indies" he didn't realize that there was a continent or two in the way. So what he explored wasn't on any map of the day.

So yeah, the Arabian navigators knew about indonesia (they aren't muslim there for no reason) but they didn't know about the Carribean or the N & S America.

As far as I recall Columbus never did make it to the "east indies."

Hello ca1ic0cat

Considerable unbiased and independent research over the last 50 years, proved Columbus did have that map.

What I said in my earlier Post is correct.

The history we were taught, is biased, and much of it untrue, sad to say.

Kind Regards....

So I've looked up the map and was rather surprised to see a crude rendition of north america on it. Then I read this:

"The map was drawn in 1513 by Piri Reis, a famous admiral of the Turkish fleet, and presented to the Sultan in 1517. Piri Reis stated that the map was based on about twenty charts and mappae mundi. According to Piri these maps included eight Ptolemaic maps, an Arabic map of India, four newly drawn Portuguese maps of their recent discoveries, and a map by Christopher Columbus of the western lands."

That's from Wikipedia. So if this is accurate then Piri Reis was was using information that Columbus had found out, probably the hard way.

I guess the ambiguity will continue.