The Beginnings of the Global Age

The title images were taken from the map, "'Die Nüw Welt: Die neüwen Inseln so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient bey dem land Indie ligen". [The New World: the new islands discovered in our times by the King of Spain in the great ocean.] Reproduced from Sebastian Münster, Cosmographiae universalis lib. vi. (Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1550), first published in 1544, in German, under the title Cosmographia. Beschreibung aller Lender [Cosmographia: description of every land]. Courtesy of the Yale Map Collection, Yale University.

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Europe'sNewWorld