The first map to depict a separate Western Hemisphere ... or terra nova (new world) for South America and "Cuba" for North America. Printers, however, reinserted America after Waldseemueller's ...

The 510-year-old map is the first to name America. A world map in the form of a set of gores for a terrestrial globe, from 1507 by cartographer Martin Waldseemueller is displayed at Christie's ...

on the same scale as the 1507 map, steps back even further, showing only parts of the new continents and reconnecting the north to Asia. South America is labeled Terra Nova -- New World -- and ...

A centuries-old copy of a 500-year-old map that christened the New World as “America” has been discovered at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich – folded and wedged inside of an old book ...

Standing before a 17th-century world map in her daily press briefing, Sheinbaum proposed dryly that North America should be renamed "América Mexicana," or "Mexican America," because a founding ...

known as Vinland or the New World. The map seems to challenge the common 20th-century narrative of Christoper Columbus’ voyage, suggesting that Norse explorers — not Mediterraneans — were the first ...