News and Articles on
Who "Discovered" America?
Web Items
- 2002 Feb 4. A
History Of The African-Olmecs. By Paul Barton -
raceandhistory.com. Excerpt: Over the
past year and up to today (February 3, 2002), many
great discoveries have been made that greatly enhances
information about the ancient world, particularly the
ancient African world and ancient African civilizations.
... A few miles off the coast of Cuba, what is described
as an underground set of Ruins has been found and is
being studied by scientists. In Mexico, archeologists
and scientists (see Sitchin, ancientamerican.com) have
found the most ancient calendar from Mexico dating
back to exactly 3113 years B.C. and connected with
an African civilization of ancient Mexico called the
Olmec or Xi (Shee) Civilization....
- Fall, 2001, Ancient Navigators Could Have Measured
Longitude! by Rick Sanders (Full text of
article from Fall 2001 21st Century) -- http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/fall01/navigators/navigators.html -- "Around
the year 232 B.C., Captain Rata and Navigator Maui
[under the guidance of Eratosthenes] set out with
a flotilla of ships from Egypt in an attempt to circumnavigate
the Earth. ...One of the navigational instruments
which Maui had with him was a strange looking "calculator" that
he called a tanawa; such an instrument was known,
in 1492, as a torquetum."
- Building and Using Maui's Tanawa by
Bertram Cooper (Full text of article from Fall 2001 21st
Century) -- http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/fall01/Tanawa/tanawa.html
- August, 1997 The Navigational Mysteries
and Fraudulent Longitudes of Christopher
Columbus -- A Lecture given to the
Society for the History of Discoveries
and the Haklyut Society by Keith A. Pickering http://www1.minn.net/~keithp/shd973.htm
- Celestial Navigation http://www.amtsgym-sdbg.dk/as/rw/seaandsp.htm
Books and Magazine Articles
- Barton, Paul Alfred, A
History of the African-Olmecs: Black Civilizations
of America from Prehistoric Times to the Present Era. (Available
as eBook.)
- Sep-Oct 2002. Flattening
the Earth, by Jeffrey Burton Russell, Mercury Magazine,
pp. 34-38. Contrary to popular folklore, medieval Europeans
knew Earth was a sphere, and, with the notable exception
of Christopher Columbus, most had a pretty good idea
of its true size.
- Trefil, James, Rounding the Earth; Astronomy
Magazine, August 2000, pp. 38-44. Centuries before Columbus,
ancient astronomers percieved graceful curvatures in
their universe.
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