Reading ‘To Climates Unknown’
Alternate history of humanity’s journey
3 min readMar 8, 2022
It was a fictional version of April 4, 1581 when apprentice sailor William Adams met an alternate fate. So, too, then, the Mayflower. And thus the history of colonization changed. The history of science, too — the “eureka” of the evolution of species and the far slower realization that some rocks are radioactive. Everything changed.
