We’ve all heard the story. It’s 1492. Christopher Columbus stands before a panel of grim-faced Spanish inquisitors and skeptical “experts.” They point at his maps and scoff, warning him that if he sails too far west, his ships will tumble off the edge of the world into a void of sea monsters. Columbus, the brave visionary of the Enlightenment, insists the world is round.

It’s a great story. It’s also complete historical fiction.

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