A DECADE AGO, the Library of Congress paid $10 million to acquire the only known original copy of a 1507 world map that has been called “the birth certificate of America.” The large map, a masterpiece of woodblock printing, has been a star attraction at the library ever since and the object of revived scholarly fascination about the earliest cartography of the New World. The research has also rescued from obscurity a little-known Renaissance man, the 16th-century globe maker Johannes Schöner, who was responsible for saving the map for posterity. More - NY Times
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A DECADE AGO, the Library of Congress paid $10 million to acquire the only known original copy of a 1507 world map that has been called “the birth certificate of America.” The large map, a masterpiece of woodblock printing, has been a star attraction at the library ever since and the object of revived scholarly fascination about the earliest cartography of the New World.

The research has also rescued from obscurity a little-known Renaissance man, the 16th-century globe maker Johannes Schöner, who was responsible for saving the map for posterity.

More - NY Times

Sports And Games Of The Renaissance  By Andrew Leibs
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Sports And Games Of The Renaissance

 By Andrew Leibs

Hoc Die: On the evening of 3 August 1492, Columbus departed from Palos de la Frontera with three ships: a larger carrack, the Santa María ex-Gallega, and two smaller caravels, the Pinta and the Santa Clara, nicknamed the Niña. photo: A Replica of Christopher Columbus’ ship the Nina
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Hoc Die:

On the evening of 3 August 1492, Columbus departed from Palos de la Frontera with three ships: a larger carrack, the Santa María ex-Gallega, and two smaller caravels, the Pinta and the Santa Clara, nicknamed the Niña.

photo: A Replica of Christopher Columbus’ ship the Nina