Re: 500-year old map of *America* a puzzle


--- Bill Arnold <billarnoldfla@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


--- wjhonson <wjhonson@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Dec 4, 7:46 pm, Bill Arnold <billarnold...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Who was the Duke of Lorraine who brought Waldseemuller and a
group of scholars together at a monastery in Saint-Die in France to
create a new map of the world? What are his dates? What is his
parentage? His ancestry?

Who was Vasco Nunez de Balboa who did not reach the Pacific by land
until 1513, and Ferdinand Magellan did not round the southern tip of the
continent until 1520? What are their dates? What are their parentage?
Their ancestry? Gee whiz, TAF: this is certainly more germane to gen-med
than terrible British food of today, agreed?

Bill

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the 1507
Waldseemuller map remains a puzzle for researchers.
Why did the mapmaker name the territory America and then change his mind later? How was he
able to
draw South America so accurately? Why did he put a huge ocean west of America years before
European explorers discovered the Pacific?

Researchers are hopeful that putting the rarely shown map on permanent display for the first
time
since it was discovered in the Waldburg-Wolfegg castle archives in 1901 may stimulate
interest
in
finding out more about the documents used to produce it.
The map was created by the German monk Martin Waldseemuller. Thirteen years after
Christopher
Columbus first landed in the Western Hemisphere, the Duke of Lorraine brought Waldseemuller
and a
group of scholars together at a monastery in Saint-Die in France

Antoine (aka Anthony) was Duke of Lorraine from 1508 to 1544 when he
died.
His father Rene of Anjou was the celebrated Duke of Lorraine who
figures in royal-conspiracy theories, freemasons, and all that.


BA: Well < G > we *ALL* know that freemasonry was based on the masonry
symbolism of ancient Egypt and the masons who built the pyramids, in particular
the legendary Imhotep. Now: do you suppose that thid Duke of Lorraine had
a genealogy which dates back to the Crusades? Was this Lorraine family into
fraudulent maps? And how could they make a fraudulent map of the world
when at that time supposedly no one knew of the Pacific: so what induced them
to create such a map, including South America, if not they had a vast library?
Is their genealogy relevant to this story, or not? How does the Monk and
the Monastery fit into this? Which came first, the Dukedom of Lorraine or
the Monastery of the Monk Waldseemuller?

Bill

BA: TAF sure knows how to expand gen-medieval threads of significance!
OK: supposedly, by history some guy name Amerigo V. P. discovers America,
when we all know it was discovered earlier than that by westerners. But at
any rate, after that abt. 1492 C. Columbus discovers it again, and within 13
years a Monk and a Duke in Germany are making an accurate map of South
America and the Pacific and it is printed in 1507, two years later. That's
faster than the KJV came into existence and with a lot less men involved.
So, who were these players and why in Germany, inland? There is a lot
of genealogy to cover here, TAF, are you up for it? Better to construct
this history than deconstruct my paragraph, don't you think? And, yes,
Will, you are a gentleman and a scholar for doing scholarship like a gent!

Bill

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