Message #127923

[BlueHue]

Eratosthenes" Moved" the PILLARS to Gibraltar
(from Ethiopia .) by political expediency in 250 bc. Read it in my Subscript( Post-bottom.)
Klicking on your LINKS results in " The Page cannot be found". Can you rectify that ?

Hm -
There is obviously a tail to the dating Munster-map.
"North Atlantic region is essentially a Viking view dating from the 12-14th centuries. One of the last wood-engraved maps, done in the style of copper-plate engraving. Published posthumously by H. Petri (son in law) in Basle, Switzerland."
http://www.rsoperations.com/History/Cartography/Photo_Gallery.htm
So there's still some unknown sides to the history of the first maps of the "new world"...! 
Anyway - good going and tx for the valuable contribution, B.