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Subject:        Waldseemueller's 1507 world map, LOC
Date:   Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:34:38 -0500 (EST)
From:   Lucy Rowland <[log in to unmask]>
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/25/AR2007122501188.html?hpid=moreheadlines

Exhibit

'Exploring the Early Americas': A Sense of Continent's Direction
Above, library staffers assemble the custom-made case for Martin Waldseemueller's 1507 world map, which introduced the word
Above, library staffers assemble the custom-made case for Martin Waldseemueller's 1507 world map, which introduced the word "America," seen in detail at left.

At right, conservators tend to the map, which was purchased by the library for $10 million in 2003 and is believed to be the only one in existence. The 36-square-foot map is now on permanent display as part of the exhibit "Exploring the Early Americas." (Susan Walsh - AP)

By Cathryn Keller
Special to The Washington Post
Wednesday, December 26, 2007; Page C01

It's not that Amerigo Vespucci discovered the place. Among the European explorers, Christopher Columbus got here first. But Columbus thought he'd reached Asia, while Vespucci later posited the "revolutionary concept," says the Library of Congress, that Columbus had actually sailed to a separate continent altogether.

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Lucy M. Rowland, MS, MLS, CNU
Head, Science Collections & Research Facilities
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