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It's A Whole New World: Oldest Globe To Show Americas Discovered
NBCNews.com ^ | 23 August 2013 | Megan Gannon

Posted on 08/23/2013 12:02:15 PM PDT by zeestephen

Dated to the early 1500s, the globe was likely crafted in Florence, Italy, from the lower halves of two ostrich eggs. It is decorated with monsters, intertwining waves and even a shipwrecked sailor.

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KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs

1 posted on 08/23/2013 12:02:15 PM PDT by zeestephen
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Additional images:

http://www.livescience.com/39114-oldest-globe-showing-new-world-photos.html


2 posted on 08/23/2013 12:03:42 PM PDT by zeestephen
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Asia on the ostrich egg globe, showing the large peninsula jutting southward at the right which is evidence of the influence of Henricus Martellus, a German cartographer who worked in Florence.
3 posted on 08/23/2013 12:05:47 PM PDT by zeestephen
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Cool


4 posted on 08/23/2013 12:06:09 PM PDT by Viennacon
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Wow. Great post.


5 posted on 08/23/2013 12:07:59 PM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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One of the inscriptions, in Latin, on the Asia side says, “There be dragons here.”...........


6 posted on 08/23/2013 12:17:57 PM PDT by Red Badger
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7 posted on 08/23/2013 12:20:56 PM PDT by Red Badger
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Beautiful.


8 posted on 08/23/2013 12:24:47 PM PDT by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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But can a 10th grade student find Canada on it?


9 posted on 08/23/2013 12:27:26 PM PDT by beelzepug (if any alphabets are watchin', I'll be coming home right after the meetin')
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Probably can’t find the equator on it.


10 posted on 08/23/2013 12:52:43 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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The Piri Reis Map - The Piri Reis Map  is the oldest surviving map to show the Americas. It is not European, surprisingly, but Turkish. It bears a date of 919 in the Moslem calendar, corresponding to 1513 in the Western Calendar.
http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/pseudosc/piriries.htm

11 posted on 08/23/2013 2:05:13 PM PDT by preacher (Communism has only killed 100 million people: Let's give it another chance!)
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Nobody can find Canada on that globe, because it ain’t on there.


12 posted on 08/23/2013 2:10:04 PM PDT by Boogieman
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Imagine that. ;o)


13 posted on 08/23/2013 2:41:52 PM PDT by beelzepug (if any alphabets are watchin', I'll be coming home right after the meetin')
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Re: “But can a 10th grade student find Canada on it?”

No.....

But ALL of them know where to find BC weed!

14 posted on 08/23/2013 4:51:03 PM PDT by zeestephen
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Can't ping to the list, keeps giving me an error.

15 posted on 08/24/2013 8:11:00 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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Buache map (1737) shows Antarctica without ice.

16 posted on 08/24/2013 11:24:28 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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