The first world map including America was painted by Martin Waldseemüller in the year 1507. See the map at http://home.t-online.de/home/Hanno_Kuehnert/waldseem.htm kwp -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20030215/e4b17849/attachment.html>