2nd Reflection

Christopher Columbus

I choose Christopher Columbus, born on 1451 in the Italian port of Genoa, lived in Portugal and in Spain. He is the son of wool merchant called Domenico Colombo. He have 4 other siblings which 3 younger brother and a sister. He is famous for discovering the New World, yet he died thinking he had reached the Indies. A man called Regiomontanus was famous as a Medieval Scientist, Mathematician and Astronomer. His book Ephemerides was used by Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci to measure longitudes in their explorations of the New World. Christopher have 3 ships which is named, The Nina, The Pinta and The Santa Maria. Christopher travelled to Iceland when he was sixteen years old, traveled the seas as a pirate, or a Privateer, attacking ships belonging to the Moors. His ship is sunk in a battle off Portugal, but he swims ashore. Moreover, he married wealthy Felipa Perestrello Moniz, a daughter from a noble Portuguese family. On 1480, they have a son named Diego Colon, but his wife Felipa dies of consumption on 1485. On 1492 August, Columbus leaves Palos, Spain in search of the Indies. Any way, on May 20 1506, Christopher Columbus dies at the Spanish court at Vallodolid.