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The Epic Story of the Map that gave America its Name
BBC ^ | 7/3/18 | Madhvi Ramani

Posted on 07/12/2018 12:35:42 PM PDT by Kartographer

A few hundred years ago, when much of the world was mysterious and unknown, two European humanists came together to produce an extraordinary map of the world.

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; History; Travel
KEYWORDS: ancientnavigation; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; martinwaldseemueller; navigation; waldseemuller
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To: Kartographer

One of the first really cool places I ever found on the internet was a gopher site at a university that had a bunch of maps they’d scanned posted as images. This as actually pre-WWW.


21 posted on 04/04/2019 9:42:39 AM PDT by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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