When the sailor in the crow's nest of the Santa Maria first sighted land in 1492, Columbus must have been wondering about his charts -- the Bahamas were not India! At times I look at my own stock ...

THE CHARTS, WHICH COLUMBUS MENTIONED IN HIS DIARY, WERE PREPARED FOR HIM BY ABRAHAM BEN SAMUEL ZACUT (OR ZACUTO), A JEWISH ASTRONOMER OF SALAMANCA. THE SEMINARY’S COPY OF THE BOOK, DISPLAYED IN ...