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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: TVDOC on May 06, 2012, 12:19:54 PM
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The person that actually first named the continents in the western hemisphere "America", what year, and how did he do it?
HINT: It was NOT the explorer Amerigo Vespucci.......in all of his logs, diaries, and letters, Vespucci always referred to his finds in the western hemisphere as "Terra Nova, or Terra Incognita".
This person was a German cleric who never set foot on a ship, nor did he ever venture outside his (adopted) homeland, which was not Germany.
Bonus points for for the exact (Latin) phrase that identifies his accomplishment.......
doc
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Matthias Ringmann.
ab Americo Inventore ...quasi Americi terram sive Americam
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Matthias Ringmann.
ab Americo Inventore ...quasi Americi terram sive Americam
Unfortunately no on both counts.......
doc
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Martin Waldseemüller created a 12-panel map that first used the term "America" to show the continents of North and South America.
The full title of the 1507 map is:
"Universalis cosmographia secunda Ptholemei traditionem et Americi Vespucci aliorum que lustrationes"
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Martin Waldseemüller created a 12-panel map that first used the term "America" to show the continents of North and South America.
The full title of the 1507 map is:
"Universalis cosmographia secunda Ptholemei traditionem et Americi Vespucci aliorum que lustrationes"
Bravo!!
500 points removed from your BS count!! Translate the Latin and I'll put them back....... :-)
doc
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As an interesting aside for readers, Waldseemüller supposedly only made fifty copies of this famous work, only one of which remains intact today, and it is on display in the Library of Congress.........over the years, rumors abound that at least one additional intact copy is also out there, either in the Vatican secret archives, or in the hands of a private collector.
Proof of this has never been verified.
Were another copy to surface, curators at Southby's have estimated its value to be approximately 250 million dollars.
Universalis cosmographia set the scientific and navigational world on its ear in 1507, due to the fact that up until that time all navigational charts used by the great explorers of the time were all based on Ptolemy's maps which were in common use for over 1400 years, virtually unchanged.
Those viewing it today will find it remarkably accurate, considering that it is largely based entirely upon speculation, and the very limited amount of information brought back by Columbus and Vespucci.
doc
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Bravo!!
500 points removed from your BS count!! Translate the Latin and I'll put them back....... :-)
doc
Damn....instead of Latin, I took German....
Actually, I really am proud of that bitchslap count, so here goes:
"A drawing of the whole earth following the tradition of Ptolemy and the travels of Amerigo Vespucci and others"
http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0309/maps.html (lest ye think I know what the hell I'm translating, this will put that to rest. So an additional 100 bitchslaps, on top of the 500 that you promised, may be in order.... O-) )
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Damn....instead of Latin, I took German....
Actually, I really am proud of that bitchslap count, so here goes:
"A drawing of the whole earth following the tradition of Ptolemy and the travels of Amerigo Vespucci and others"
http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0309/maps.html (lest ye think I know what the hell I'm translating, this will put that to rest. So an additional 100 bitchslaps, on top of the 500 that you promised, may be in order.... O-) )
Close enough....done....
doc
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Close enough....done....
doc
:yahoo:
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:yahoo:
You're unbalanced. I will give :hi5: now and then to get you back in balance. (when I think about it , that is)
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You're unbalanced. I will give :hi5: now and then to get you back in balance. (when I think about it , that is)
I just did. Two more to go. :tongue:
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I just did. Two more to go. :tongue:
Make that 101 to go.
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An even hunnert now.
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:whistling:
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Make that 101 to go.
Okay--I give up. :tongue: