The correct answer is: "Columbus".
Columbus went to Portugal seeking for funding for his trip that intended to reach the Indies but by sailing to the West.
The reasons why King John II of Portugal rejected his proposal were mainly financial, and also because he considered it was a wrongly calculated route. He considered it a manner of misusing Portuguese resources, and that it would be wiser to invest them in the profitable trade routes that the nation had managed to control in Africa, around Cape Horn.
