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Columbus was not trying to prove the world was round: He was seeking a shorter route to India and China for trade and ran into the Americas. He also studied the calculations Eratosthenes had done on the size of a spherical Earth before leaving on his journey, but ultimately rejected them because he thought the Earth was smaller. If he hadn't relied on people who had done the math wrong, he may have never headed west in the first place.
Columbus was not trying to prove the world was round: He was seeking a shorter route to India and China for trade and ran into the Americas. He also studied the calculations Eratosthenes had done on the size of a spherical Earth before leaving on his journey, but ultimately rejected them because he thought the Earth was smaller. If he hadn't relied on people who had done the math wrong, he may have never headed west in the first place.