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Q: What is origin of the world?
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| 1 | In 1493, Christopher Columbus returned to Europe from his first voyage to the Americas, and on I November that year Peter Martyr d’Anghiera referred to Columbus in a letter as the discoverer of “the New World” In another letter a year later he again referred to “the New World”. In 1516, Martyr published a work whose title began De orbe novo (“On the New World”). In 1524, the term was also used by Giovanni da Verrazzano in a record of his voyage that year along the coast of what would later become the United States and Canada. One might speak of the “New World” in a historical context, when discussing the voyages of Christopher Columbus, the Spanish conquest of Yucatan, etc. Second, in a biological context, one speaks of Old World and New World species. While America is always described as “New World”, Australasia can be described as “New World” depending on the sphere of discourse. In a biological context, Australasia is neither New World nor Old, as flora and fauna differ markedly from both those of Eurasia and of the Americas. Wine from Australia and New Zealand is referred to as ‘New World’ as it has only in recent decades successfully penetrated European markets, overtaking French and Spanish wine in popularity. Long before Columbus, in Europe, many legends existed of Western continents across the sea. It is thought these may have stemmed from prehistoric intercourse with the New World. Examples include the Norse Great Ireland or Hvitramannaland (“White Men’s Land”); the “abode of saints” visited by St. Brendan, Abbot of Cluainfert, documented in the Irish Book of Lismore the Welsh Legend of Madoc; and of course Plato’s Atlantis. |
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