China and Polynesia

Indeed, if [this other part of the world] is inhabited, it is not inhabited by men such as exist in our parts,and we should have to regard it as another inhabited world.Humans were beginning to venture, in almost every sense that matters, to other worlds.The subsequent exploration of the Earth was a worldwide endeavor, including voyages from as well as to China and Polynesia. The culmination was, of course, the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus and the journeys of the following few centuries, which completed the geographical exploration of the Earth.