Live Science proclaimed, Monday (05/07/2012), the investigation reveals the history of the expedition a navigator as well as Italian explorer John Cabot, could have been first to identify the European expeditions to the "New World" that precedes the Columbus expedition.
Although said to be the discoverer of the Americas, Christopher Columbus did not reach the mainland of the "New World" until 1498 when he sailed to South America.
Meanwhile, further north, Cabot became the first European to land on North American soil. In those days, he made three expeditions to the sea Henry VII of England, in the summer of 1496 and 1498. The second expedition in 1497 to make it work to discover North America via Newfoundland.
Now, a brief note on the accounting books have revealed the dimensions of the discovery of Cabot tersembuyi. Catanan shows in April, he received financial support from an Italian bank called Bardi, in London.
The note is found among the works of historian Alwyn Ruddock mendian. In it was revealed indications that the Europeans may have discovered the New World beberaoa decades before Cabot and Columbus.
The document recording payments worth 50 nobles sterling separately Cabotte Giovanni (John Cabot) from Venice. money was intended for her to do the expedition discovered the New World.
"This short entry opens a new chapter in kecendikiawanan Cabot. This shows that the sea expedition Bristol is part of a wider network of companies who supported the exploration of Italy," explained historian Francesco Guidi-Bruscoli from the University of Florence.
Guidi Bruscoli, detailing his findings in the journal Historical Research. He noted that the short note referring to the "new land" (il nuovo Paese in the original Italian version). Not for a new land ("un nuovo Paese").
"The use of the definite article ('il' - 'the') rather than the use of 'a' ('un' in Italian) is confusing," said Guidi Bruscoli.
The phrase implies that money given to Cabot that he could find a land whose existence was already known. The Bardi, a lot of people who are not interested, will have a sound economic reasons to pay for what is almost certainly the invention.
Because Cabot patents apply only in certain places it as the land is "not known a Christian," it seems impossible "new lands" is what one called the Columbus had discovered four years earlier.
"Unfortunately, we only have a clue. While the entries showed that the Bardi believe in the prior art, we can not assume this has happened," said Guidi-Bruscoli.
