Atlantic Ocean

Our present knowledge of the Cosmos shares this disagreeable but inevitable feature. In the first century, the Alexandrian geographer Strabo wrote:Those who have returned from an attempt to circumnavigate the Earth do not say they have been prevented by an opposing continent, for the sea remained perfectly open, but, rather, through want of resolution and scarcity of provision.Eratosthenes says that if the extent of the Atlantic Ocean were not an obstacle, wemight easily pass by sea from Iberia to India. It is quite possible that in the temperate zone there may be one or two habitable Earths