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Waldseemuller map
Credit:
Martin Waldseemüller
,
Library of Congress
Universalis Cosmographia
, the Waldseemüller wall map dated 1507, depicts the
Americas
,
Africa
,
Europe
,
Asia
, and the
Pacific Ocean
separating Asia from the Americas. There is only one surviving copy of the map, which was purchased by the
Library of Congress
in 2001 for $10 million.
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