1 posted on
11/13/2015 5:37:41 AM PST by
NYer
To: SunkenCiv
2 posted on
11/13/2015 5:40:07 AM PST by
NYer
(Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy them. Mt 6:19)
To: NYer
I was always partial to Vespuchiland myself.
3 posted on
11/13/2015 5:40:27 AM PST by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: NYer
How did the cartographer know the general outline of western south america? Magellan didn’t get passed the straits of magellan till 1520. Who was there before?
To: NYer
Nice! Interesting to see the rivers ‘named’, along the Eastern coast.
5 posted on
11/13/2015 5:44:25 AM PST by
Jane Long
("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
To: Tax-chick; GregB; SumProVita; narses; bboop; SevenofNine; Ronaldus Magnus; tiki; Salvation; ...
After centuries away from the public eye, the impressive collection was rediscovered in 1901 when a Jesuit scholar found it sitting in the collection of a German prince. Ping!
7 posted on
11/13/2015 5:47:09 AM PST by
NYer
(Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy them. Mt 6:19)
To: NYer
“we now know that North and South America are a single continent”
By that reasoning, we have AfroEurAsia as well.
9 posted on
11/13/2015 5:49:24 AM PST by
ctdonath2
(History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the week or the timid. - Ike)
To: NYer
The name originally applied to South America and was later extended to North America. According to an account I read, I think by Samuel Eliot Morrison, Waldseemueller had read a narrative by Vespucci in which he claimed to have seen South America one year before Columbus (in fact, Columbus saw the mainland of South America before Vespucci did). So he named the land mass after Vespucci thinking he was the first explorer to see it.
Vespucci was not in command of an expedition but simply a passenger. There is a painting in Florence by Ghirlandaio which is thought to include him.
Columbus did see both continents (a bit of the coast of Venezuela, and a bit of the coast of Central America). He died in 1506, the year before Waldseemueller's map. Vespucci lived until 1512.
To: NYer
To: NYer
Would be quiet the lifetime adventure to take off on small slow leaky wind powered craft using such a map!
17 posted on
11/13/2015 6:07:28 AM PST by
X-spurt
(CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
To: NYer
India? I thought it was called Hindustan at that time.
22 posted on
11/13/2015 6:30:30 AM PST by
SkyDancer
("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
To: NYer
The 1507 map influenced Thomas More's writing of "Utopia" in 1516:
23 posted on
11/13/2015 6:31:48 AM PST by
Slyfox
(Will no one rid us of this meddlesome president?)
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