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The first map known to have named the great landmass of the Western Hemisphere "America" has been acquired by the Library of Con
The first map known to have named the great landmass of the Western Hemisphere "America" has been acquired by the Library of Con
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2015-02-12
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The first map known to have named the great landmass of the Western Hemisphere "America" has been acquired by the Library of Congress for ten million U.S. dollars. Described as "one of the greatest finds of the modern age" after it was lost for more than two centuries, the 1507 map of the entire world included data gathered by explorer Amerigo Vespucci.
The map was kept—for more than 350 years—in the castle of Prince Johannes in Germany. Considered lost for over 250 years, it was discovered in the castle in 1901. Shortly after it was found, the map was described by Philip Phillips, the chief of the geography and map division at the Library of Congress in the early 20th century, as "one of the great finds of the modern age."
In 1992 it was offered for sale, and the Library of Congress acquired it after making an initial down payment in June of 2001. The German state of Baden-Wuerttemburg gave permission to export the map. It was relocated to the Library of Congress in 2001, pending completion of the sale. The map will be handed over officially in the presence of representatives of the governments of the U.S. and Germany in 2004, when a gallery devoted to its display is expected to be completed. The map was paid for by the U.S. Congress and private donations.
The map was designed and drawn by Martin Waldseemueller, who included data gathered by explorer Amerigo Vespucci. Vespucci’s voyage of 1501 reinforced the theory of the spherical shape of the earth, and confirmed Vespucci’s revolutionary concept of the New World as a separate continent, which, until then, was unknown to the Europeans. In recognition of Vespucci’s discovery, Waldseemuller named the new continent "America", after Vespucci’s first name. Waldseemuller said of the great new continent in his Cosmographic Introduction that, "it is indeed a fourth part of the world," Europe, Asia, and Africa being the other three.
Of the original thousand prints, the Library of Congress now possesses the only known surviving copy—separated into 12 pages, which are arranged like a puzzle to depict the Earth in its entirety.
What can we learn from the text?
选项
A、Many people still deny the fact that the earth is of a spherical shape.
B、Don’t doubt that which you are sure about.
C、Mapmaking techniques have hardly advanced in the last few centuries.
D、Things that are thought to have been lost might someday be found.
答案
D
解析
属信息归纳题。文章讲到这张地图失而复得,从而可以得出结论:认为失踪的事物有可能重新被发现。
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