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Exploring Waldseemüller’s World
1507 Map Symposium Marks Beginning of Research

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Biologist S. Blair Hedges says breaks in aging woodcut lines indicate the Library’s copy of the Walseemüller map may have been printed about 10 years after the original print run from freshly carved wood. - Gail Fineberg

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