{"id":4010,"date":"2009-10-31T03:00:39","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T08:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4010"},"modified":"2009-10-31T03:00:39","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T08:00:39","slug":"columbus-sailed-the-ocean-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4010","title":{"rendered":"Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/magazine\/8328878.stm\">The map that changed the world<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Waldseemuller map was &#8211; and still is &#8211; an astonishing sight to behold. Drawn 15 years after Columbus first sailed across the Atlantic, and measuring a remarkable 8ft wide by 4\u00bdft high, it introduced Europeans to a fundamentally new understanding of the make-up of the earth.<\/p>\n<p>The map represented a remarkable number of historical firsts. In addition to giving America its name, it was also the first map to portray the New World as a separate continent &#8211; even though Columbus, Vespucci, and other early explorers would all insist until their dying day that they had reached the far-eastern limits of Asia.<\/p>\n<p>The map was the first to suggest the existence of what explorer Ferdinand Magellan would later call the Pacific Ocean, a mysterious decision, in that Europeans, according to the standard history of New World discovery, aren&#8217;t supposed to have learned about the Pacific until several years later.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The map that changed the world The Waldseemuller map was &#8211; and still is &#8211; an astonishing sight to behold. Drawn 15 years after Columbus first sailed across the Atlantic, and measuring a remarkable 8ft wide by 4\u00bdft high, it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4010\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}