The Magellan expedition sails from Sanlúcar

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1. Story
2. Five ships and roughly 270 men left Sanlúcar de Barrameda under Ferdinand Magellan, sailing for Castile on the proposition that the Spice Islands lay on the Castilian side of the Tordesillas antimeridian and could be reached by sailing west. The expedition was therefore not conceived as a circumnavigation at all: it was a commercial route-finding venture premised on a legal argument about a line no one could locate.
3. Knowledge
4. Celestial navigation (latitude sailing)
5. Ferdinand Magellan (Fernão de Magalhães)
6. The Moluccas (Maluku Islands)
7. The Magellan expedition sails from Sanlúcar
8. Connections
9. The Moluccas (Maluku Islands)
10. Ferdinand Magellan (Fernão de Magalhães)
11. Celestial navigation (latitude sailing)
12. Malacca (Melaka)
13. Albuquerque takes Malacca
14. The Magellan expedition sails from Sanlúcar
15. The Victoria completes the first circumnavigation
16. The Treaty of Zaragoza settles the Moluccas by sale
17. The Manila galleon (Nao de China)
18. Juan Sebastián Elcano
19. The Magellan expedition sails from Sanlúcar
20. Magellan is killed at Mactan
21. The Victoria completes the first circumnavigation
22. Almanach Perpetuum
23. Mariner's astrolabe
24. The Manila galleon (Nao de China)
25. The Treaty of Tordesillas divides the ocean
26. The Magellan expedition sails from Sanlúcar
27. The Treaty of Zaragoza settles the Moluccas by sale
28. Evidence
29. The principal contemporary narrative of the 1519–1522 circumnavigation: the departure, the strait, the Pacific crossing, Magellan's death at Mactan and the Victoria's return. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted in this session. Dates and the survivor count attributed to it in this pack are from the author's knowledge of the standard editions and require checking. Pigafetta is a partisan witness, favourable to Magellan and hostile to Elcano, which a reader should weigh.