Re: Book lays out how Portuguese found Australia

benlizross <benlizro@xxxxxxxxxx > wrote:

Jack Linthicum wrote:

Australian author Peter Trickett said that when he enlarged the small
map he could recognize all the headlands and bays in Botany Bay in
Sydney - the site where Cook claimed Australia for Britain in 1770.
[...]
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17722949/

I'm most impressed that he "used a computer" to rotate the map 90
degrees. In my day we had to do that sort of thing by hand. This must
be the truth at last.

Ross Clark

I think it proves that the Portuguese already in the
16th century used computers.

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p.a.


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