The discovery of America . quam Ptolemausut incognitam reliqult: ab Hispanis uero quum in orientemnauigio contendunt, obambulatur & circuitur, ut paulo post dis-seremus. Quin & in oceano occidentali fere nouus orbis nostristeporibus ab Alberico Vesputio & Christophoro Columbo, multisquealiis insignibus uiris inuentus est, qui non abs re quarta orbis parsnuncupari potest, etiam terra non sit tripartita, sed quadripartita,quum hae Indianae insulae sua magnitudine Europam excedant,presertim ea qu§ ab Americo primo inuentore Americam Miinster,_ra6u/cE cosmograpkiccB, apud Grynaeus,
The discovery of America . quam Ptolemausut incognitam reliqult: ab Hispanis uero quum in orientemnauigio contendunt, obambulatur & circuitur, ut paulo post dis-seremus. Quin & in oceano occidentali fere nouus orbis nostristeporibus ab Alberico Vesputio & Christophoro Columbo, multisquealiis insignibus uiris inuentus est, qui non abs re quarta orbis parsnuncupari potest, etiam terra non sit tripartita, sed quadripartita,quum hae Indianae insulae sua magnitudine Europam excedant,presertim ea qu§ ab Americo primo inuentore Americam Miinster,_ra6u/cE cosmograpkiccB, apud Grynaeus, NovusOrbis, Paris, 1832. ^ The subject is elaborately discussed by Major, Memoir on aMappemonde by Leonardo da Vinci, being the earliest Maphitherto known containing the name of America, Archoeologia, MUNDUS NOVUS. 147 It represents the oceanic* theory in its extremeform and has some points of likeness to the Lenoxglobe. The northern continent is represented bythe islands of Bacalar and Terra Florida, and the. Part of Leonardo da Vincis map, eir. 1514 — earliest known map?with the name America. latter name proves the date of the map to be sub-sequent to Ponce de Leons discovery on EasterSunday, 1513. Cipango, here spelled Zipugna,still hovers in the neighbourhood. The western London, 1866, vol. xl. pp. 1—40. The sketch here given is reducedfrom Winsor (ii. 126), who takes it from Wiesers Magalhies-Strasse. 148 THE DISCOVERY OF AMEBIC A. coast of the southern continent is drawn at ran-dom; and the antarctic land, the inevitable remi-niscence of Ptolemy and Mela, protrudes as far asthe parallel of 60° S. In 1515 Johann Schoner, professor of mathe-matics at Nuremberg, made a globe upon whichAmerica is drawn very much as upon America on _ ^ , . , ... Schoners L/conardo s map, with an inscription first globe \ . ?, ?, stating that the western coast is un-known; above, corresponding to Mexico, is Fa-rias in the true position of Vespuciuss Lariab,and this is joined to the Flori
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