for three hundred and fifty thousand ducats; and to
accept a new demarcation line in the antipodes
drawn north and south seventeen degrees on the
equator east of the Moluccas. This agreement in
reality renounced all claim to the Philippines, but
this feature of the treaty was subsequently vio-
lated or ignored by Spain. ¹

The scientific results of Magellan's voyage were
far more important than the political advantages
derived from it. Once for all it gave a practical
demonstration of the sphericity of the earth that
convinced the ordinary mind unreached by the
scientific proofs. It revolutionized all ideas as to
the relative proportions of the land and water of the
globe, and dissipated the traditional error on which
Columbus's voyages and his whole geographical
system were based, that the area of the land far
exceeded that of the water. The vast width of the
Pacific revealed that America was a new world in a
more comprehensive sense than had been suspected.
That America was entirely detached from Asia
was not definitely proved until the voyage of
Vitus Bering, in 1728, through the strait named for
him.

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