Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTIL 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.'lemmy.worldimagemessage-square58fedilinkarrow-up1344arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1339arrow-down1imageTIL 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.'lemmy.worldFlying Squid@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square58fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareripcord@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoThey were generally working with very, very rough, incomplete, conflicting, or confusing info, yes. It’s pretty astounding to me that this is even remotely as accurate as it is.
They were generally working with very, very rough, incomplete, conflicting, or confusing info, yes.
It’s pretty astounding to me that this is even remotely as accurate as it is.