Is this the map that took Christopher Columbus to the New World?

A team of researchers have grown increasingly confident that this late 15th century map of the world -- or a version of it -- possibly guided Christopher Columbus along his expedition to the New World. Created at some point between 1489 and 1491 by a famous German cartographer based in the Renaissance-era Italian city-state of Florence, it offers […]









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