Flying Squid to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish • 11 days 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-up1357arrow-down15file-textcross-posted to: map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz
arrow-up1352arrow-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 to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish • 11 days agomessage-square58fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz
minus-squareoriginaluciferlinkfedilink6•10 days agoha, good point. i was just kinda shocked to see a legible ‘cuba’ and ‘florida’
minus-squareKaryoplasmalinkfedilinkEnglish7•10 days agoTerra florida means something like “land with many flowers” in Spanish.
ha, good point. i was just kinda shocked to see a legible ‘cuba’ and ‘florida’
Terra florida means something like “land with many flowers” in Spanish.