Who Did Discover America?

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Freed from behind our paywall, here's S. Frederick Starr's article on the 11th century scholar who used scientific techniques to ascertain, with remarkable accuracy, the existence of the New World.

So, Who Did Discover America? | History Today

historytoday.com

Abu Raihan al-Biruni, an Islamic scholar from Central Asia, may have discovered the New World centuries before Columbus – without leaving his study – as S. Frederick Starr explains.