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"The Presumed North America on the Waldseemüller World Map (1507): A Theory of Its Discovery by Christopher Columbus". Terrae Incognitae. 46 (2): 86– 102. doi: 10.1179/0082288414Z.00000000034. Whitfield, Peter (1998). "The New World: 1490–1550". New Found Lands: Maps in the History of Exploration. Psychology Press, Routledge. p. 53.
On December 31, 1907, a ball signifying New Year's Day was first dropped at Times Square, [161] and the Square has held the main New Year's celebration in New York City ever since. On that night, hundreds of thousands of people congregate to watch the Waterford Crystal ball being lowered on a pole atop the building, marking the start of the new ...
The Egerton 2803 maps are an atlas of twenty Genoese portolan charts dated to around 1508 or 1510 and attributed to Visconte Maggiolo. The manuscript maps depict various regions of the Old and New Worlds , blending both Spanish and Portuguese cartographic knowledge.
His shop also sold maps, and was the first known shop to market maps commercially. His two most famous maps date from 1506 and 1508. The 1506 Contarini-Rosselli map, his only signed and dated work, was the first printed map showing the New World. [3] Rosselli's 1508 world map was the first map drawn on an oval projection.
The earliest surviving map of the area now known as New York City is the Manatus Map, depicting what is now Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, Staten Island, and New Jersey in the early days of New Amsterdam. [7] The Dutch colony was mapped by cartographers working for the Dutch Republic. New Netherland had a position of surveyor general.
Kunyu Wanguo Quantu, printed in Ming China at the request of the Wanli Emperor in 1602 by the Italian Catholic missionary Matteo Ricci and Chinese collaborators, the mandarin Zhong Wentao, and the technical translator Li Zhizao, is the earliest known Chinese world map with the style of European maps. [1]
New York City workers upgrading underground water mains in Greenwich Village discovered an 8-foot-deep burial vault from the 19th century. A heap of skeletons from more than a dozen people were ...
New York: Random House. ISBN 9781400062812. Hessler, John W. (2008). The naming of America : Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 world map and the Cosmographiae introductio. GILES. ISBN 978-1904832492. King, Robert J. (2022). "The Antipodes on Martin Waldseemuller's 1507 World Map". The Globe (91): 43– 60 – via ProQuest.