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Map EnthusiastsEnglish · 1 month ago

TIL about Sebastian Münster's 1540 map of the Americas, the first one to show that North and South America were connected by an isthmus and the first to call it 'The New World.'

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TIL about Sebastian Münster's 1540 map of the Americas, the first one to show that North and South America were connected by an isthmus and the first to call it 'The New World.'

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Map EnthusiastsEnglish · 1 month ago

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19568259

More info here: https://exhibits.stanford.edu/ruderman/catalog/mz230kn1495

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FYI: ſ is not a strangely written f, but an s. Tabulanouarum insularum.