Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTIL 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.'lemmy.worldimagemessage-square58fedilinkarrow-up1358file-text
arrow-up1358imageTIL 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.'lemmy.worldFlying Squid@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square58fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareuser134450@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth's_circumference#Eratosthenes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth's_circumference#Eratosthenes