Quotes About Magellan

Only Seville was capable of providing Magellan with the technology, the labor, and the financial resources

swindled Magellan by falsifying their bills of lading. They vastly overstated the amount of supplies they sold to the fleet

Although Magellan was normally meticulous in preparing the ships, this time he was too trusting of his suppliers.

Eventually, Magellan gave the Indians a name—Pathagoni, a neologism

Magellan also received a secret communiqué from his father-in-law, Diogo Barbosa

Prior to Magellan, due to the fact that we knew it was so hot on Venus, we thought that the rocks at the surface would behave more plastically, more like Silly Putty than like solid rock in the way that we think of it, like the rocks that I'm sitting on.