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.'
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.'
More info here: https://exhibits.stanford.edu/ruderman/catalog/mz230kn1495
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Man what a shit map, they are horrible at cartography /s
This dumbass didn’t even know the Maps app is free.
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