Sail On! Sail On! Sail On! Sail On! "Sail On! Sail On!" is an alternate history short story by Philip José Farmer, first published in "Startling Stories" 1952. In an alternative 1492, Christopher Columbus sets out to find a shortened route to China and South-East Asia across the Atlantic, financed by Ferdinand V and Isabella I of Spain. However, in this timeline, the Earth "is" flat, though scientists and philosophers have doubts about its geological provenance, and an Angelo Angelli is mentioned as proving Aristotle's axiom that objects of different weights drop with different velocities (which Galileo Galilei disproved in our world). Radio technology
Daniel P. Davison American Museum of Natural History. He attended the Groton School, which had been founded in 1884 by his grandfather, Endicott Peabody. Davison enlisted during World War II in the United States Army Air Forces where he was a pilot of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. He earned his undergraduate degree in 1949 from Yale University in 1949, where he was a member of the Yale Political Union and the Skull and Bones society. He earned his legal degree from Harvard Law School in 1952. He was an associate for three years at White & Case and became the fifth generation