18 Gardiner G. Hubbard — Discoverers of America. 



On the Lenox globe, so called, made about the j^ear 1510, 

 now in the Lenox library in New York, South America is a 

 large island, while North America is represented by a number 

 of detached islands. 



On the map attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, 1514, the name- 

 "America " appears for the first time, and is given to a large 

 island on the equator. Florida is the name of another island 

 northwest of "America." 



On the Schoner globes of 1515 and 1520 North America and 

 South America are two islands, while the southern part of 

 "America " is separated by straits from an Antarctic continent, 

 and on the globe of 1520 the city of Mexico is identified as 

 the Quinsay of Marco Polo. On the Hauslab globe of 1516-1517 

 the name "America" is given to South America. Straits con- 

 necting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans separate North America 

 from South America. 



On the Maiollo map of 1527 South America, including the isth- 

 mus of Panama, appears an island separated by the " Straito Cubi- 

 toro " from North America. On the Miinster map of 1532 South 

 America is an island with a strait between it and Cuba, leading 

 into the Pacific ocean, while on the Miinster map of 1540 North 

 America and South America are connected by an isthmus. 



On the Paris gilt globe, about 1525, Greenland is an island, 

 Labrador and " Terra Florida " form parts of Asia, while the 

 gulf of Mexico is fairly delineated, with Cathay on its west- 

 ern shore. The Schoner globe of 1533 is much the same in the 

 middle latitudes, Avhile the Paris wooden globe, about 1535, rep- 

 resents Greenland, Labrador and Florida as belonging to Asia, 

 the gulf of Mexico as the " M[are] Cathairum," and South Amer- 

 ica as a peninsular extension of the Asiatic mainland.* 



On the map of Orontius Finreus, 1537, thirty years after the 

 death of Columbus, Greenland is an island, Labrador and the 

 coast of North America are attached to the northern part of 

 Asia, Cathay appears on the gulf of Mexico, and South America 

 is connected with the southeastern part of Asia. This map was 

 made nearly twenty years after Magellan had circumnavigated 

 the world. 



On the Gastaldi carto marina of 1548 Greenland is connected 

 with Norway on the east and I^abrador with America on the 



*"The Discovery of North America," by Henry Harrisse, 1892, pis. 

 ijcvii, xxi, xxii, 



