500-year-old 'birth certificate of America' discov
Jul 4, 2012 9:07:38 GMT -5
Post by popcorn on Jul 4, 2012 9:07:38 GMT -5
500-year-old 'birth certificate of America' discovered
A version of a 500-year-old world map that was the first to mention the name "America" has been discovered in a German university library.
These were "at least as important for the dissemination of geographical knowledge in his own time" as the world wall map, which is UNESCO-registered and often dubbed "America's birth certificate", the university said.
The new find shows the world divided into 12 segments which taper to a point at each end and are printed on a single sheet, which, when folded out, form a small globe, with the three rightmost segments depicting a boomerang-shaped territory named America.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9373115/500-year-old-birth-certificate-of-America-discovered.html
A version of a 500-year-old world map that was the first to mention the name "America" has been discovered in a German university library.
These were "at least as important for the dissemination of geographical knowledge in his own time" as the world wall map, which is UNESCO-registered and often dubbed "America's birth certificate", the university said.
The new find shows the world divided into 12 segments which taper to a point at each end and are printed on a single sheet, which, when folded out, form a small globe, with the three rightmost segments depicting a boomerang-shaped territory named America.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9373115/500-year-old-birth-certificate-of-America-discovered.html