QuickCheck: Did Christopher Columbus prove that the Earth is round?

By NIKLAS ALBAKRI

IN 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain to the New World not only to find an alternate passage to India, but to prove that the world was round.

Is this true?

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