minus-squareapolo399@lemmy.worldtoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL about Sebastian Münster's 1540 map of the Americas, the first one to show that North and South America were connected by an isthmus and the first to call it 'The New World.'linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 months agoIt’s not “inflating”, it’s “insularum” (they also used to use the tilde as a shorthand for m and n), using the old long s linkfedilink
It’s not “inflating”, it’s “insularum” (they also used to use the tilde as a shorthand for m and n), using the old long s