Both maps are good maps, but for different purposes. If each 15 degree segment corresponds to 1000 miles then there will be 24,000 miles in a complete circle, representing in the complete 360 degree circle of Earth's circumference. About 22,000 km About 6,000 km His private one would have recorded more daily traveled distance, because he did not want his crews to think that they had really gone that far and thus keep them sailing with the hope of reaching land in the short distance Columbus had targeted in his pleas for royal funding. In 1519 science gains a crushing victory. Yet even this does not end the war.
Many conscientious men oppose the doctrine for two hundred years longer.
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