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The Da Vinci Globe, dated 1504, is the oldest known globe to show the New World. [View all]
Engraved with immaculate detail on two conjoined lower halves of ostrich eggs.
If the first map to represent the American continent is that of Juan de la Cosa, made in the year 1500, and the first in which the name America appears to identify it is the so-called Universalis Cosmographia of Martin Waldseemüller, of 1507, the first globe that showed the New World >>>
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