The Spanish Letter of Columbus to Luis De Sant´ Angel
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Excerpt from The Spanish Letter of Columbus to Luis De Sant´ Angel: Escribano De Racion of the Kingdom of Aragon Dated 15 February 1493 The conclusion arrived at, is a conditional negative: the feat, although possible, - the time being calculated at three years, and the circumference of the earth at twenty-two thousand miles - would not be practicable by reason of physical difficulties and the changes of climate. In the first half of the fourteenth century, the world was made acquainted, by Marco Polo, with lands beyond the ken of Ptolemy, and men who studied geography learned that an ocean bounded Asia on the East, as an ocean bounded Europe on the West. With this knowledge, a spirit of exploration was evoked which became incarnate, soon after the beginning of the fifteenth century, in Prince Henry of Portugal. The efforts of the Portuguese in that century, to reach and turn the southern limit of Africa, so as to win by sea a passage to the golden shores of India - lost since the time of Alexander the Great, save in the glimpses afforded by Arab merchants and by Marco Polo - stimulated so keenly the desire for geographical discovery, that its fascination has not yet become inoperative. Under the influence of that spirit, a Genoese mariner whom we call Christopher Columbus, set his heart upon traversing the ocean which he imagined lay between Europe and Cathay, in order to find a Western passage to India, as the Portuguese were seeking the Eastern. His hopes were not realised, for he found what he had not sought; but his efforts were crowned with the achievement so enthusiastically lauded in the first sentence of this preface, when he discovered the West Indies on Thursday, October 11th, 1492. One of the chapters of the Historia de los Reyes Catolicos, by Andres Bernaldez, a man acquainted personally with Columbus, begins as follows: - In the name of God Almighty. There was a man of Genoa, a dealer in printed books, trading in this land of Andalusia, whom they called Christoval de Colon, a man of very high intellect without much book-learning, very skilful in the art of Cosmography and of the divisions of the world; who perceived, by what he read in Ptolemy, and in other books, and by his own discernment, how and in what wise is formed the world into which we are born and in which we move. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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