![]() As explained by Christopher Columbus’ son, Ferdinand, when the elcipse began, the Arawaks “ran on the ships carrying supplies and asking for Columbus to interfere and talk to his God in order for the moon to return.”Ĭolumbus told them that he had to discuss the matter with God in private and in the silence of his cabin. He consulted a book by the German mathematician and astronomer Johannes Myller von Kennigsberg and saw that a total moon eclipse would take place on February 29, 1504. Three days before the eclipse, the explorer asked for a hearing from the leader of the Arawaks and warned him that his God was outraged by the attitude of the natives and that in three days he would make the moon disappear from the sky.
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