When Is Something "Discovered"?
By and large, European travellers set out to locate and investigate places they had heard about or hypothesised.
They did not always report what they found immediately after the "discovery".
By and large, European travellers set out to locate and investigate places they had heard about or hypothesised.
They did not always report what they found immediately after the "discovery".
Image: Michel Antoine Baudrand (1633-1700) Nova et esatta tavola del mondo o terra universale (Public Domain, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Wikimedia Commons)
