Christopher
Columbus (ca 1446 - 1506), Italian explorer who believed that the Earth was round, and that
trade routes with
Asia could be established by
sailing westward. In August 1492, with eighty-seven men and three ships, he
set sail for the
west and discovered the Western
Hemisphere. He made three other voyages to the Western
Hemisphere in 1493, 1498 and 1502.
—State of Man Congress Approved Gls (14.5.92)