He is best known for his printed œuvre, which includes mostly engravings after the most important masters of his day, including Martin Schongauer and the young Albrecht Dürer. This engraving of St. Christopher, holding a wooden staff and transporting the Christ child across a river, is ...
[B] On his return voyage in 1493, Columbus started from Samaria Bay on the north coast of Hispaniola, and he made landfall at Santa Maria Island in the Azores. We know his entire DR courses and distances between these two points, since they’re recorded in his log. ...