Keeping Time
A Digital Commonplace Book
Friday, October 16, 2009
The Map at the Center of the Copernican Revolution
See: “
A world redrawn: When America showed up on a map, it was the universe that got transformed
.”
This map, the Waldseemüller Map (1507), is the first known document to name
America
. The only known surviving copy is at the
Library of Congress
.
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