Flying Squid to Today I LearnedEnglish • 2 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 • 2 months agomessage-square58file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish15•2 months agoI absolutely love wildly inaccurate old maps. They have so much charm.
minus-square@lordnikonlinkEnglish1•2 months agois it inaccurate? I just see the state of Texas and from what I’m told it’s bigger than then the northern hemisphere.
I absolutely love wildly inaccurate old maps. They have so much charm.
is it inaccurate? I just see the state of Texas and from what I’m told it’s bigger than then the northern hemisphere.