An early world map by Martin Waldseemuller (1507) offers an interesting perspective on the New World as seen from the Old. Of special interest, as Bioephemera observes, is "the existence of the Pacific Ocean":
The Pacific appears on no other maps of the time. Clearly Waldseemuller had little data on it - compare the featureless western shore of South America to the eastern side's fringe of calligraphic names. Balboa and Magellan hadn't even been there yet!
The map is in the collection of the Library of Congress.
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