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Originally Posted by alegro  Interestingly, nobody has addressed my other questions about the conflict of history with the hypothesis of LoA and subjective reality. How can the Earth be round if nobody believed it? How can someone discover a new continent if he didn't detach himself from the outcome and wanted to manifest something entirely different? How would - assuming the hypothesis of subjective reality - someone who still beliefs the Earth is flat experience a trip around the Earth? |
Interestingly the
myth that most people thought the earth to be flat is from a
(fictional) novel about Columbus 
Anyway, perhaps Columbus desire was to become famous (and rich), and he just thought that finding the way to the Indies was the best way of doing it.