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1 posted on 07/24/2003 8:12:52 AM PDT by Ed Straker
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To: Prof Engineer
ping
2 posted on 07/24/2003 8:13:47 AM PDT by msdrby (Go Navy!)
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To: Ed Straker
I thought Algore named America.
3 posted on 07/24/2003 8:15:28 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: Ed Straker
"The earliest map using "America" to label part of the New World..."

'Amerigen' was the German name coined by Martin Waldseemueller for the new continent (actually for South America)


4 posted on 07/24/2003 9:08:00 AM PDT by Between the Lines
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