Rare map related to America‘s 'birth certificate' discovered in Munich University Library

Tuesday, July 3, 2012 - 09:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

The American continent was “christened” by the cartographer Martin Waldseemüller. A previously unknown variant of the famous world map from the mapmaker’s workshop has unexpectedly turned up in the collections in the University Library in Munich.

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