In 1492, Christopher Columbus stood on the deck of the Santa Maria, telescope in hand, and sighted land. St Kitts, an island amongst those visited by Columbus, commemorated the event by issuing a postage stamp depicting exactly that. Whoops: the telescope wasn't invented until 1608. It doesn't, however, stop anyone from including telescopes in crafts, costumes, clipart, or coloring books of Columbus' adventures. More than just nit-picky, the inclusion of such complex tools overlooks Columbus' accomplishments, given the utter lack of technology at his disposal.
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