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About de casas (how bad Spanish were, as a way in to tell why Europeans knew very little about Peru because afterwards books were banned). Peru and Colombia seen as a wilderness with huge toads and vampire bats.
— Aug 14, 2026 09:23PM
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I like the historical journey in chapter 2 of how they found out about the world being a globe, latitude and longitude. (Greek guy measuring the sun at one spot and another to measure the curve/angle.)
— Aug 12, 2026 09:13PM