Sentences with phrase «century circumnavigation»

Its geological history has long transformed us - tremendous earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis - but its human history, from a Western perspective, is quite young, beginning with Magellan's sixteenth - century circumnavigation.

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You say that five centuries» worth of empirical evidence — beginning with Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe in 1522, and continuing right on up to the innumerable photographs of an obviously spheroid planet taken from outer space over the past 70 years — has more or less settled the issue?