Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind

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* Only one man was spared, to provide an account of his sect’s beliefs.

* Although some alternative accounts give 1514.

* Columbus first used the phrase ‘Indias Occidentales’ – ‘West Indies’ – in late 1501 or early 1502. It was an implicit acknowledgement that they lay in a totally different hemisphere from India.

* Born de Vio, he took ‘Thomas’ as his name in tribute to Thomas Aquinas. ‘Cajetan’ derives from Gaeta, the city midway between Rome and Naples where he was born.