Theory Versus Practical Application in the History of Early Ocean Navigation

Peck, Douglas T.

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“…Eva G. R. Taylor agrees with the concept that Columbus learned his navigation from the Portuguese and with unfounded conjecture rather than valid historical evidence asserted he used a Portuguese navigation manual entitled Regimento do Astrolabio e do Quadrante in his 1492 voyage to the New World (Taylor 1953). 13 Academic Columbian scholars do not seem to understand that a few random '' celestial observations '' does not constitute '' celestial navigation'' and Columbus and other early pilots '' navigated '' solely by dead-reckoning (Peck 2002, 46-59). 14 There is no valid evidence that Prince Henry's school ever existed.…”

Section: P O R T U G U E S E N a V I G A T I O N The General Consensmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Controversial Skill of Columbus as a Navigator: An Enduring Historical Enigma

Peck

2009

J. Navigation

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This study of Columbus' navigation is unique because it was written by an historian who is also a trained and experienced professional global (and ocean) navigator, rather than an academic historian with only superficial knowledge of the science of navigation as practiced by Columbus and other early navigators. The study is also unique in that as an American historian author disagrees with his colleagues in the USA who present the “politically correct” view of Columbus as an unskilled entrepreneur who obtained his limited knowledge of navigation as a crew member or passenger on Portuguese voyages, rather than as one of the most skilled and experienced of the cadre of respected Genoese captains and navigators used by kings throughout Europe to perform their maritime enterprises.

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Section: P O R T U G U E S E N a V I G A T I O N The General Consensmentioning

confidence: 99%