Beautiful Things
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  • Lionino
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    Cantino planisphere, the earliest surviving world map to portray America, it was a copy of the Padrão Real:
    2880px-Cantino_planisphere_%281502%29.jpg
    Followed by Nícolo di Caverio's planisphere, also adapted from the Padrão Real, now lost to time:
    1200px-Caverio_Map_circa_1506.jpg
    They would be the basis for Waldseemüller's map, where the continent is named for the first time:
    1200px-waldseemuller_map_2.jpg
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  • Lionino
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    Another very beautiful mapa-mundi, by Johannes Ruysch (1507):
    johannes-ruysch.jpg
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