A map of the world according to the tradition of Ptolemy and the voyages of Amerigo Vespucci – April 6, 2023 at 02:52PM

In 2003, the US Library of Congress paid a German aristocrat a record-breaking $10 million (£6.1 million) for what has become known as “America’s birth certificate,” because it is the earliest map to show and name America as a separate continent. It was made in Saint-Dié, a small town in what is now northeast France, by a team of humanist scholars. One of these, Martin Waldseemüller, is thought to have designed the map, while others wrote, translated, and printed it.