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-squareapolo399@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 months agoIt’s not “inflating”, it’s “insularum” (they also used to use the tilde as a shorthand for m and n), using the old long s
It’s not “inflating”, it’s “insularum” (they also used to use the tilde as a shorthand for m and n), using the old long s