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The British Library copy. Americae Sive Quartae Orbis Partis Nova Et Exactissima Descriptio (Latin: A New and Most Exact Description of America or The Fourth Part of the World) is an ornate geographical map of the Americas, made in 1562 by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez and Flemish artist Hieronymus Cock.
PARIAS and AMERICA, corresponding to North and South America, are separated by a strait in the region of the present Panama on the main map but on the miniature map inset into the upper-mid part of the main map the isthmus joining the two is unbroken, apparently demonstrating Waldseemüller's willingness to represent alternative solutions to a ...
In Portuguese, América [155] is a single continent composed of América do Sul (South America), América Central (Central America) and América do Norte (North America). [156] It can be ambiguous, as América can be used to refer to the United States of America, but is avoided in print and formal environments.
Several scholars explicitly accept the authorship of both map and projection completely as Leonardo's work, describing the octant projection as the first of this type, among them, R. H. Major (1865) in his work Memoir on a mappemonde by Leonardo da Vinci, being the earliest map hitherto known containing the name of America, [1] [4] the ...
North America is a continent [1] in the Earth's Northern and Western Hemispheres. It is bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean , on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean , on the southeast by the Caribbean Sea , and on the south and west by the North Pacific Ocean ; South America lies to the southeast.
Drinking coffee could extend your life up to two years, new research finds. Regular coffee consumption was found to be associated with increased health span (time spent living free from serious ...
Jan. 3: Bruins re-sign Mark Kastelic. The rugged forward's deal averages $1.567 million a year. He was tied for the team lead with 76 penalty minutes and had 151 hits.
The term Latin America was first introduced in 1856 at a Paris conference titled Initiative of America: Idea for a Federal Congress of the Republics (Iniciativa de la América. Idea de un Congreso Federal de las Repúblicas). [9] Chilean politician Francisco Bilbao coined the term to unify countries with shared cultural and linguistic heritage.