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Sunday, December 25, 2016

This 509-year-old map contains the first known use of the word 'America' — but not where you may think

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The east coast of South America, the first known instance of "America" being used in a document. Image: Library of Congress In April 1507, German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller published his Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorumque lustrationes, or The Universal Cosmography according to the Tradition of Ptolemy and the Discoveries of Amerigo Vespucci and others. It was the first known map to feature parts of the New World labeled “America,” deri.  show all text
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December 25, 2016 at 12:57AM

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