EXPLORE WORLD
In the great Age of Discovery
,explorers, inventors, discoverers,philosopher took a daring scientific view
and wanted to understand many unknown and frightening things of nature like
travelling to ends of the great seas and oceans. Till then the sailing ships
moved from one port to next known port very carefully . They did not venture
into the great unknown oceans—probably due to fear that entire oceans will tumble
into unknown abyss from the end of flat table earth!
But in Age of Discovery a great truth appeared
to have dawned on many senior experienced weather beaten sailors that oceans
are not so frightening and that the earth is round and that if one sailed
straight in forward direction he most
probably may return to his home port after at least two or three years. They
half believed and half doubted the words of
natural philosophers( scientists
and university scholars) that earth may be a huge round sphere. The time was 15th and 16th
centuries and Newton’s Gravitation Law was not yet discovered. But after Galileo invented telescope and
showed that Jupiter had round moons revolving round it, everybody understood
that that moon is also such sphere travelling the skies. Existence of these
real shapes of roundness, these real spheres , gave courage to sailors that
Earth due to some mysterious reasons and powers of god almighty may be really
floating in space just like moons of Jupiter and our own moon.
So
some reckless weather- beaten sailors took courage and wanted to risk
their lives and to sail round earth by travelling in a straight forward
direction come what may. They were optimistic that at least after three four
years, even after loss of a few dozen or a few hundred sailors their ships(their group of ships) may return
to the home port from where they started.
And lo! Some sea captains took real
risk and travelled in a forward straight-line direction into the great unknown
oceans and seas in well known safe sea routes . And ,most unbelievably, they
returned home though with a far reduced
crew after a few years . people at home could not believe their eyes
seeing the bearded soldiers. The daring captains returned to home ports to hero’s
welcome. Some captains died on the way
in storms or due to disease or due to capture by some wild tribals. Whole ships disappeared
without trace. Some luckily returned (like legendary Greek sailors of yore) to get heroe’s welcome and earned immortal frame.
Names of a few such heroes are given
below.
(1) Fedinand Magellan (1480-1521) the
Portuguese captain
(2)Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) a
great Spanish sailor
(3) Amerigo Vespucci(1451-1512).
(4) John Cabot (1450-1498) Italian
sailor .
(5) Portuguese sailor Vasco da
Gama(1460-1524)
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