id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_jryy5mjolzautgfjvwxfanxzrq Carol Delaney Columbus's Ultimate Goal: Jerusalem 2006 34 .pdf application/pdf 17759 1364 73 peoples to Christianity and the re-conquest of Jerusalem are necessary preconditions for the "Second Coming" when Christ will return before the "End of known Libro de las profecı́as, or Book of Prophecies, that these were longstanding beliefs of Columbus. Columbus's statement that the world would come to an end in 155 rather than 150 years, as in John Gillis, a social/cultural historian and sometime lecturer at Stanford, has written a fascinating study of the history of the meaning of "islands" in western imagination (2004). who have written about the Libro de las profecı́as and Columbus's religious, even apocalyptic Columbus lived in a Christian, Catholic world; it enveloped his life and situated it in the widest cosmological sense. Although Columbus believed the earth was round, he still lived in a Ptolemaic, geocentric universe; Copernicus's views had not yet been published and and trans., The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America ./cache/work_jryy5mjolzautgfjvwxfanxzrq.pdf ./txt/work_jryy5mjolzautgfjvwxfanxzrq.txt