Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Putting Canada on the map



A wooden table globe created in 1577 by Italian printmaker Mario Cartaro will be auctioned next month. It is believed to be the first to use the name "Canada" to label the northernmost part of the New World. Also on the block is a matching “celestial” globe depicting the heavens as understood by 16th-century scholars.



More at National Post 

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