Such were the unlooked for prejudices which Columbus had to encounter at the very outset of his conference, and which certainly relish more of the convent than the university. To his simplest proposition, the spherical form of the earth, were opposed figurative texts of Scripture.


Voyages and Discoveries of the Companions of Columbus (1831)


Such were the unlooked for prejudices which Columbus had to encounter at the very outset of his conference, and which certainly relish more of the...

Such were the unlooked for prejudices which Columbus had to encounter at the very outset of his conference, and which certainly relish more of the...

Such were the unlooked for prejudices which Columbus had to encounter at the very outset of his conference, and which certainly relish more of the...

Such were the unlooked for prejudices which Columbus had to encounter at the very outset of his conference, and which certainly relish more of the...