Magellan vs Cook: should the sea be crossed or charted?

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MAGELLAN vs JAMES COOK go head to head — and every jab is rooted in real history.

MAGELLAN

I found the strait no one believed existed and proved one sea joins another—I did not measure the world, Captain, I united it.

JAMES COOK

You blundered across an ocean you named 'Peaceful' and lost most of your fleet doing it; I returned with coastlines drawn so true ships still trust them.

MAGELLAN

You had chronometers, charts, and my example—I had faith and an empty horizon, and I gave you the whole planet to survey.

JAMES COOK

Faith gets you killed on a beach in the Philippines, Ferdinand; precision gets you home—and a crossing no one can find again is just a rumor with a body count.

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