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

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7•6 months ago
It is kind of impressive they had this much mapped out when it hadn’t even been 50 years since Columbus’s first voyage.