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This same logic applies to every discovery in all of human history.

Sure. This is just Great Man theory [1] in action. It's a bit absurd, once you know about it you see it everywhere.

It's especially distasteful when it's about people who 'discovered' places, because the next step was usually the subjugation or genocide of the people already living in the discovered place. But we still celebrate the explorers as heroes.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory

Indeed. Next thing somebody will be making a fuss about Isaac Newton.

Sure. But it wasn’t someone else; it was Columbus.

If it were someone else, I’m certain we’d be talking about them instead.

IIRC Cabot was trying to raise money for an expedition at the same time as Columbus and did reach continental America before him.