Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month 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-square7fedilinkarrow-up111arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up110arrow-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 · 1 month agomessage-square7fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareWoodScientist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoNow I really want to see an animation of what the European discovery of the planet looked like. Imagine a time lapse of a Civilization game, as the map is slowly revealed. I want to see that, except actual history.
Now I really want to see an animation of what the European discovery of the planet looked like. Imagine a time lapse of a Civilization game, as the map is slowly revealed. I want to see that, except actual history.