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Author: chazwin
Date: Jan 22, 2008 09:40
...02/magazine/02wwln-lede-t.html?fta=y Created collaboratively in 1507 in the French town of St. Dié by Waldseemüller and his humanist colleagues, their ambitious series of woodblock prints represented the most comprehensive collation to date of the Western world's geographical knowledge, crediting Columbus and Vespucci by name for features discovered during their explorations of a...
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