In 1540 the German cartographer, Sebastian Münster published a map showing the New World in his edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia. It was the first map of the Americas to show the two as connected continents not connected to any other landmass. This map shows Europeans’ evolving ideas about the New World, and especially about North [...]
With the publication of his book Atlantis: The Antediluvian World in 1882, Ignatius Donnelly detailed a number of theories in relation to the subject of Atlantis. This map was published within the book and shows the location where Donnelly not only believed Atlantis to have existed but also the regions of the world to which [...]
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