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File:UniversalisCosmographia.jpg

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Carte du monde Universalis Cosmographia, 1507; by German Cartographer Martin Waldseemüller)
Date 1507
Source Library of Congress (website http://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/waldexh.html)
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