person
Christopher Columbus
Columbus
also: Колумб
The Genoese navigator credited with the European discovery of the Americas in 1492, invoked mock-heroically by the balloonists after their crash-landing.
Reading notes
- The Flying Islands, by Jules Verne, Translated by A. Chekhonte §63 Columbus
Christopher Columbus, the Genoese navigator credited with the European discovery of the Americas in 1492; invoked mock-heroically as the balloonists claim to have surpassed his feat of discovery.
- Three Sisters §159 Columbus
Christopher Columbus, cited by Vershinin alongside Copernicus as an example of a discovery once dismissed as absurd -- part of his recurring argument that the present age cannot judge what will later be seen as important.
- Artists' Wives §132 Christopher Columbus
The Genoese navigator credited with the European discovery of the Americas, cited in the filler-tale's mock-encyclopedic opening flourish about the city where Doctor Tanner lived.