It’s not precisely clear why a 16th-century German cartographer chose to honor the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci by naming a land mass after him instead of Christopher Columbus, who historically ...

Martin Waldseemuller, the cartographer, thought he was naming a newly discovered continent-sized island in the western Atlantic "after the ship's captain who discovered it," one Amerigo Vespucci. His ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The only surviving copy of the 500-year-old map that first used the name America goes on permanent display this month at the Library of Congress, but even as it prepares for its ...

Today, what’s hot in cartography! We need to talk about cartography more often here on the A-blog. Let’s just admit it: Most of us could easily spend an entire evening studying maps. And I don’t mean ...

Drawn half a millennium ago and then swiftly forgotten, one map made us see the world as we know it today... and helped name America. But, as Toby Lester has discovered, the most powerful nation on ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - The only surviving copy of the 500-year-old map that first used the name America goes on permanent display this month at ...