"Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorumque lustrations."

In English, it translates roughtly into the $10 million mistake that put America on the map. With the help of hyperspectral imaging, the Library of Congress plans to keep it that way.

Thought to be the only surviving copy of a 1507 world map made by German cartographer Martin Waldseemuller, "Universalis cosmographia" is the first map to appear with the name America on a separated and full Western Hemisphere. Waldseemuller named the new landmass after the explorer Americo Vespucci.

Waldseemuller was right about the continent but wrong on the name as European scholars had already given Christopher Columbus credit for the discovery. After printing a thousand copies, Waldseemuller was forced to print a new copy of the map with America replaced by "Terra Incognita."

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