Columbus's Secret Log

On September 9, 1492, as the last land dropped below the horizon, Christopher Columbus began keeping two logs. One log, which he kept secret, was a true reckining of his course and distance. The other was a falsified account of the ship's location written so the crew would not be frightened at sailing so far from land. Yet as fate would have it, Columbus overestimated his distance by 9 percent in his private log, placing his discovery much farther west then it actually was. The false log, however, contained no such "error". Columbus had given his sailors a record that was, for all practical purposes, virtually correct.

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