Russo, Lucio

Lucio Russo (1944- ) is an Italian mathematician, physicist and science historian. In his 2013 offering L’ America dimenticata^[1060] (The Forgotten America) he bravely suggests that America was discovered by   * the Phoenicians or the Carthaginians. He also claims that the longitude of the Lesser Antillies (known as the Isles of the Blest) was known precisely to Hipparchus (190-120BC), but that Ptolemy (90-168AD) later identified the Isles of the Blest with the Canaries and made a catastrophic error when he reduced the circumference of the Earth to 180,000 stadia from the nearly exact figure of 252,000 stadia calculated by Eratosthenes centuries earlier.

Having unravelled Ptolemy’s error Russo was then able to locate the position of Thule on the coast of Greenland^(a).*Jason Colavito had a few criical words to offer regarding Russo’s theory^(b).

^(a) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucio_Russo

*^(b) https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/italian-mathematician-ancient-greeks-discovered-America*