"Certificate of Birth": Oldest Map of America Discovered

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The Austrian scientist Stefaan Missinne is probably on the trail of a historical sensation. Missinne recently presented the "oldest cartographic certificate of birth" of America in Vienna. According to Missinne's researches, a French map of the world, which was stored in the New York Public Library and hardly observed, dates back to about 1508 and is therefore at least eight years older than the "Waldseemüller" map, which was previously consider…

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Presumably oldest map from 1508 tracked down by Viennese professor