Biblical authority made Europeans resist accepting America as new

Evidence

There was at first a reluctance to acknowledge that America really was a new and different continent. Benito Arias Montano, Spanish organizer of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible project, was so convinced that America must have been known to authors of the Bible that he added to the texts of the Antwerp edition a list of the Hebrew forms of American place names that he thought he had discovered in the Bible. — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 117

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s material on how prior interpretive frameworks (like the soundscape/communication-theory work) resist being overturned by new evidence.

Related

• Encountering new continents forced Europe to reclassify all humanity. (similarity 0.78)