Was 'Old' Map Faked to Tweak the Nazis?

[Otto]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Monroe" <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 10:33 AM
Subject: Was 'Old' Map Faked to Tweak the Nazis?


> The New York Times
> Saturday, September 14, 2002
> Was 'Old' Map Faked to Tweak the Nazis?
> By EMILY EAKIN
>

>
> "He seems pretty plausible," said Robert W. Karrow,
> curator of special collections and maps at the
> Newberry Library in Chicago. "It may have been
> intellectual arrogance or just a game, but he was in
> pretty much the right place at pretty much the right
> time and had the right information. I think it all
> hangs together."
>
> As Ms. Seaver points out, in many ways the Jesuit is
> an obvious suspect. He was an avid scholar and
> collector of old maps, credited with discovering the
> now legendary Waldseemüller world map from 1507 - the
> first to use the word America.
>
>
> http://graphics7.nytimes.com/images/2002/09/14/arts/184map.jpg
>

Waldseemüller map:
http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/Ren/Ren1/310.html

great job, Dave

Otto

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