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Tech Beat; NIST to Preserve 1507 Map: America's 'Birth Certificate' |
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This map shows the outline of North and South America, as well as the Isthmus of Panama, and was the first to depict clearly a separate Western Hemisphere, with the Pacific as a separate ocean.
*MEL, map, america, Waldseemüller
See also http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/techbeat/tb2006_1221.htm#map.
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| Type: |
Graphic/illustration |
| Source: |
National Institute of Standards and Technology |
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Credit: Library of Congress |
| AV Number: |
06MEL005 |
| Date Created: |
December 2006 |
| Date Entered: |
12/22/2006 |
