This article was published in association with the Horizon, the EU Research and Innovation magazine. In September 1522, the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe finally returned home. Of the five ships and 270 men that had set sail three years earlier under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, only one vessel and 18 […]Old sailing manuals reveal how sailors helped create a global view of Earth
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This article was published in association with the Horizon, the EU Research and Innovation magazine. In September 1522, the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe finally returned home. Of the five ships and 270 men that had set sail three years earlier under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, only one vessel and 18 […]
