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Some weeks ago I stumbled into an exchange amongst historians on Twitter about the origin of the Name of America and was totally stunned to learn that a very successful English popular historian and television personality is convinced that the theory...

One of the world's first printed atlases is on sale at Bloomsbury in London for £90,000. The atlas of the known world is an interpretation of the works of Roman mathematician, astrologer and geographer Claudius Ptolemy, who lived between 90 and...

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Sebastian Münster, a German scholar, was born Jan. 20, 1488. In 1544, Münster published the first edition of one of the most popular encyclopedias of the century. He called his book Cosmographia, using a word that meant, at the time, a combination of...