Kislak Foundation Miami Lakes, Florida Once Gerardus Mercator applied the name "america" to the entire continent in 1538, others followed suit as shown in this mid-16th-century map. Norman B.

The 16th century saw the start of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. These Protestant ideas began to spread to England and Wales in the 1520s and started to influence many people. However ...

Morgan Library, New York. Photograph by AKG/Album The journeys of 15th- and 16th-century European explorers are depicted on Cantino’s map including Vasco da Gama’s first voyage in search of a ...

At the end of the 16th century, Spain and Portugal dominated ... in Florida and the Southwest. England, with colonizing ambitions of its own, was eager to establish a foothold on the North ...

An early Spanish explorer, possibly confused by the Baja Peninsula, reported in the 16th century ... that a map was an act of persuasion, a visual rhetoric. In 1553, gentry in Surrey, England ...

Take Antwerp’s 1565 city map by Virgilius Bononiensis ... Unlike today’s turn-by-turn navigation, a 16th-century GPS might have been all about survival: avoiding bandit-prone roads, timing ...

The 16th-century map provides insights into the fate of the ... women and children—established a colony on Roanoke Island. This endeavor was England's second attempt to establish a permanent ...