From sentto-2242572-55916-1033992125-zzzz=spamassassin.taint.org@returns.groups.yahoo.com Mon Oct 7 13:15:12 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: zzzz@localhost.spamassassin.taint.org Received: from localhost (jalapeno [127.0.0.1]) by spamassassin.taint.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0317016F21 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 13:12:54 +0100 (IST) Received: from jalapeno [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for zzzz@localhost (single-drop); Mon, 07 Oct 2002 13:12:54 +0100 (IST) Received: from n38.grp.scd.yahoo.com (n38.grp.scd.yahoo.com [66.218.66.106]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g97C1OK30390 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 13:01:25 +0100 X-Egroups-Return: sentto-2242572-55916-1033992125-zzzz=spamassassin.taint.org@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [66.218.66.97] by n38.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 07 Oct 2002 12:02:05 -0000 X-Sender: timc@2ubh.com X-Apparently-To: zzzzteana@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_2_0); 7 Oct 2002 12:02:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 17537 invoked from network); 7 Oct 2002 12:02:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m14.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 7 Oct 2002 12:02:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rhenium.btinternet.com) (194.73.73.93) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 Oct 2002 12:02:03 -0000 Received: from host217-35-23-133.in-addr.btopenworld.com ([217.35.23.133]) by rhenium.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #8) id 17yWaI-0000ef-00 for forteana@yahoogroups.com; Mon, 07 Oct 2002 13:02:02 +0100 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 4.5 (0410) To: zzzzteana X-Priority: 3 Message-Id: From: "Tim Chapman" X-Yahoo-Profile: tim2ubh MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list zzzzteana@yahoogroups.com; contact forteana-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list zzzzteana@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 13:01:09 +0100 Subject: [zzzzteana] A New Theory on Mapping the New World Reply-To: zzzzteana@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46455-2002Oct5.html A New Theory on Mapping the New World By Guy Gugliotta Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, October 7, 2002; Page A07 In 1507, a group of scholars working in France produced an extraordinary map of the world, the first to put the still-recent discoveries of Columbus and others into a new continent separate from Asia, and to call that continent "America." With the Waldseemuller map, the New World was born. But there was something else. What would later come to be called South America and Central America were surprisingly well-shaped, not only on the east coast, where explorers had already sailed, but also on the west coast -- which no European was known to have seen. The ice cream cone bulge that sticks out into the Pacific at the junction of modern-day Chile and Peru is readily visible and in almost exactly the right geographical spot -- not only in the main map, but also in an inset printed along its top. The shape of South America in the main map appears distorted because of the curvature of the Earth. It is an improbable coincidence, if it was a coincidence, for the map -- 12 large printed pages to be arrayed in one 36-square-foot wall display -- was published six years before Vasco Balboa's 1513 trip across the Isthmus of Panama and 12 years before Ferdinand Magellan's 1519-22 trip around the world. Did someone get there earlier? ... ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> 4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now http://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: forteana-unsubscribe@egroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/