Skip to main content
Become a member
Donate
Shop
Venue hire
Search
Royal Museums Greenwich
Main navigation
Menu
Royal Museums Greenwich
Search
Close
Plan your visit
Back
Plan your visit
Getting here
Eat & drink
Facilities & access
Family visits
Group bookings
School visits
Cutty Sark
Cutty Sark
Open daily 10am - 5pm
Last entry 4.15pm
Adult: £20 | Child: £10
Members go free
Free
National Maritime Museum
National Maritime Museum
Open daily 10am-5pm
Last entry 4.15pm
Free entry
Booking recommended
Free
Queen's House
Queen's House
Open daily 10am - 5pm
Last entry 4.15pm
Free entry
Booking recommended
Royal Observatory
Royal Observatory
Open daily 10am-6pm
Last entry 5.15pm
Adult: £20 | Child: £10
Members go free
What's on
Back
What's on
Planetarium shows
Exhibitions
For families
Member events
Talks and tours
National Maritime Museum
Exhibitions
Women of the RNLI
Celebrate 200 years of saving lives at sea at the National Maritime Museum
Cutty Sark
Events and festivals
Cutty Sark Comedy
Join us in the Lower Hold of the famous tea clipper for a fantastic evening of stand-up comedy
Cutty Sark
Family fun
May half term at Cutty Sark
It's all happening on board Cutty Sark this May half term - discover the fun family activities you can enjoy on the iconic tea clipper
Stories
Back
Stories
Art at the Queen's House
Our Ocean, Our Planet
Guide to the night sky
Museum blog
The lost chronometer: the timepiece that sailed with Charles Darwin and Sir John Franklin
Learn more about the marine chronometer that journeyed on board HMS Beagle before being lost at sea during Sir John Franklin's disastrous expedition
Capturing history: Jack Lowe and the RNLI
How one photographer’s quest to visit every lifeboat station shines a light on our maritime heritage
Night Sky Highlights - May 2024
Discover what to see in May's night sky including the Eta Aquariid meteor shower, the crescent Moon next to the star Pollux, and galaxies in the spring sky.
Collections
Back
Collections
Conservation
Research
Donating items to our collection
Collections Online
Search our online database and explore our objects, paintings, archives and library collections from home
The Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre
Come behind the scenes at our state-of-the-art conservation studio
Caird Library
Visit the world's largest maritime library and archive collection at the National Maritime Museum
Learn
Back
Learn
School trips and workshops
Self-guided school visits
Online resources and activities
Booking an on-site schools session
Booking a digital schools session
Young people and youth groups
Support
Back
Support
Become a member
Donate
Corporate partnerships
Become a patron
Leave a legacy
Commemoration and celebration
Cutty Sark
National Maritime Museum
Queen's House
Royal Observatory
Become a member
Donate
Shop
Venue hire
Search
Beta
Back to All Results
Explore our collection
Objects
Library
Archive
Search our collection
Filters…
Search
Language
Select…
Language
Language
English
French
Apply Filter
Format
Select…
Format
Format
Monograph/Item
Apply Filter
Type
Select…
Type
Type
Bibliography
Apply Filter
Published Year
Select...
1676
1818
1823
1831
1845
1847
1849
1870
1873
1890
1892
1893
1902
1903
1906
1910
1925
1929
1930
1933
1939
1942
1948
1949
1950
1956
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1976
1977
1981
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1995
1997
1998
2001
2002
2004
2005
2006
2008
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2022
8689
9059
9509
Author / Maker
ISBN
Subject
Book Title
Series
Journal Title
Keywords
showing 159 library results for '
columbus
'
Sort by
Relevance
Title
Title (desc)
Author
Author (desc)
Date
Date (desc)
Landfall of landfalls : westwards to the East with Christopher
Columbus
Carr, Raymond
1991 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.
92Columbus
Christopher
Columbus
: admiral of the Ocean Sea
Morison, Samuel Eliot
1942 • BOOK • 2 copies available.
910.4(72)"14/15"
Toscanelli and
Columbus
: the letter and chart of Toscanelli ...
Vignaud, Henry
1902 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
910.4(7)"1492/1493"
Columbus
and the ends of the earth : Europe's prophetic rhetoric as conquering ideology
Kadir, Djelal
1992 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
325.36
Catalogo della raccolta Colombiana : catalogue of the
Columbus
collection
Civica Biblioteca Berio (Genoa)
1963 • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
92Columbus:017.1(451.2)
Monarchs of Ocean :
Columbus
and Cook : two narratives of maritime discovery
1868? • BOOK • 1 copy available.
92Columbus
The tropics of empire : why
Columbus
sailed south to the Indies /Nicolâas Wey Gâomez.
Wey Gâomez, Nicolâas.
c2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
910.4(7)"14/15"
Select letters of Christopher
Columbus
with other original documents relating to his four voyages to
Columbus, Christopher
1847 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
910.4(7)"1492/1504"
Inventing the flat earth :
Columbus
and modern historians /Jeffrey Burton Russell ; foreword by David
"Five hundred years after Christopher Columbus (1451-1506), history continues to be accompanied by a curious and persistent illusion; the well-known fable that when Columbus discovered America he proved that the earth is round - to the astonishment of contemporaries who believed that it was flat and that one might sail off the edge. This error has become firmly established in the popular mind by the media, textbooks, and teachers, despite the fact that historians of science have known and proclaimed for over sixty years that most people in Columbus' time believed the earth to be spherical. Jeffrey Burton Russell aims to set the record straight, beginning with a discussion of geographical knowledge in the Middle Ages and what Columbus and his contemporaries actually did believe. Russell then demonstrates why and how the error was first propagated in the 1820s and 1830s - and how Washington Irving and Antoine-Jeane Latronne were among those responsible. Later historians followed the mistakes of these writers, reaching a peak in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when Christians opposed to Darwinism were labelled similar to medieval Christians who allegedly opposed the sphericity of the earth. "Inventing the Flat Earth" ends with an explanation of why the error remains pervasive in society, despite the overwhelming evidence against it, and the implications of this for historical knowledge and scholarly honesty."--Provided by the publisher.
1991. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
551.11
Christopher
Columbus
and the the conquest of paradise / Kirkpatrick Sale.
Sale, Kirkpatrick.
2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
910.4(7)"1492/1504"
Erikson, eskimos and
Columbus
: medieval European knowledge of America
Enterline, James Robert
2002 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
912.44(399.7)
The conquest of paradise : Christopher
Columbus
and the Columbian legacy
Sale, Kirkpatrick
1990 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
92Columbus
The Portuguese
Columbus
: secret agent of King John II
Barreto, Mascarenhas
1992 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
92Columbus
Christopher
Columbus
and how he received and imparted the spirit of discovery
Winsor, Justin
1890 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
910.4(72)"14/15"
Columbus
: an annotated guide to the scholarship on his life and writings, 1750 to 1988
Provost, Foster
• BOOK • 1 copy available.
92Columbus:016
America discovers
Columbus
: how an Italian explorer became an American hero
"Rather than focusing on Columbus's actions or the man himself, Bushman examines how he has been reinvented symbolically over generations of Americans. In a series of thematic chapters, she examines Columbus's image in his famous biographies (such as those by de Las Casas and Irving), his portrayal as a hero in commemorative ceremonies, monuments dedicated to him, and literary representations from contemporary writers. Illustrated with over 50 drawings and photographs spanning 200 years, this engaging book reveals Columbian iconography as a mirror of American culture."--Provided by the publisher.
1992 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
92Columbus
The race to the New World : Christopher
Columbus
, John Cabot, and a lost history of discovery /Douglas
Hunter, Doug,
2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
910.4(72/73)"149"
The journal of Christopher
Columbus
(during his first voyage, 1492-93), and documents relating to the
Columbus, Christopher
1893 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
92Cabot
Columbus
: the story of Don Cristobal Colon, Admiral of the Ocean, and his four voyages westward to the
Landstrom, Bjorn
1967 • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
910.4(7/8)"14"
Columbus
and the golden world of the Island Arawaks : the story of the first Americans and their Caribbean
Walker, D J R
1992 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
92Columbus
Vanguard of Empire : ships of exploration in the age of
Columbus
Smith, Roger C
1993 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
629.12(46/469.9)"14/15"
Memorials of
Columbus
: or a collection of authentic documents of that celebrated navigator ... preceded
Columbus, Christopher
1823 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
094:92Columbus
The Spanish letter of
Columbus
: a facsimile of the original edition published by Bernard Quaritch in
Columbus, Christopher.
2006. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
910.4(7)"1492"
Christopher
Columbus
and the new world of his discovery
Young, Filson
1906 • BOOK • 4 copies available.
92Columbus
First
Prev
…
Page
2
Page
3
Current page
4
Page
5
Page
6
…
Next
Last
Loading filters
Royal Museums Greenwich
Close
Search
Want to search our collection? Search here.
Back To Top