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Samuel Eliot Morison on the Influence of Christopher Columbus in 1493

by Ronald Kirk On this Columbus Day 2009, let us consider the Prologue of Samuel Eliot Morison’s book Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus.1 In these few pages, Morison provides some astounding insight regarding Columbus’s impact on the outlook and consequent accomplishment of his own times. First, Morison says that at the […]

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