Flying Squid to Today I LearnedEnglish • 3 months agoTIL 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.'imagemessage-square58arrow-up1361arrow-down15file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1356arrow-down1imageTIL 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.'Flying Squid to Today I LearnedEnglish • 3 months agomessage-square58file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@Stamau123linkEnglish6•3 months agoPretty good map for the 16th century anyhow, except India being where Russia would be
Pretty good map for the 16th century anyhow, except India being where Russia would be
“India” did not mean then what it does now.