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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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