Oh please lord, please bless me so I’d have an A in Chemistry. Please Please Please. I’m already going to have a B in Stats. Please help me. Please help me. Please. Oh Lord. Please don’t abandon me. Please.
So what was the big argument all about in the time of Columbus? The sages of Salamanca had, in fact, made calculations more precise than his, and they held that the earth, while assuredly round, was far more vast than the Genoese navigator believed, and therefore it was mad for him to attempt to circumnavigate it in order to reach the Orient by way of the Occident. Columbus, on the contrary, burning with a sacred fire, good navigator but bad astronomer, thought the earth smaller than it was. Naturally, neither he nor the learned men of Salamanca suspected that between Europe and Asia there lay another continent. And so you see how complicated life is, and how fragile are the boundaries between truth and error, right and wrong. Thought they were right, the sages of Salamanca were wrong, and Columbus, while he was wrong, pursued faithfully his error and proved to be right - thanks to serendipity.
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