Thursday, June 29, 2017
The first stop in Poland was the Jagiellonian University Museum. The tour was very interesting and very insightful. The technology that I enjoyed the most was in Copernicus's room. He was a student at the university and created a globe of what he thought the world looked like. The tour guide explained to us the reason why the United States is placed where India is. This was because Christopher Columbus set sail to India in hopes to find goods. What we know now is he discovered the United States. Overall I enjoyed learning about the tools he used to create his version of the earth. It really shows how far technology has advanced through the years.
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Also from that room were the star mapping equipment that he had used as a student
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the tour guides speculations on why this might have happened; she believed that the route was kept secret from other countries around the area on purpose to keep them from sailing to the new world themselves. It seems easier to hide information when you are not living in the information age if today.
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