An interesting piece of cartographical history: Finding America: University Discovers Lost Early Map of New World.
German university researchers have rediscovered a 500-year-old map that had been mistakenly bound in a volume on geometry several hundred years ago. The map, by cartograther Martin Waldseemüller, is one of the first to include the term “America” in reference to the New World.1
Reference:
- Oltermann, P. (2012, July 2). Munich researchers discover lost map of America. Der Spiegel.
https://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/munich-researchers-discover-lost-map-of-america-a-842268.html ↩︎
