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2010 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Pedro Nunes’ Map
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Abstract
When you fly from, say, my home, Lisbon to New York, you usually reach the U.S. coastline at least an hour before your plane lands. During this hour you can typically look down and see the indented outline of the Massachusetts coast and the island of Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket, and other landmarks. Then you will soon see Long Island and all its beaches, including those of the Hamptons, as you travel northeast to southwest towards New York City. If you were to look at a map of this route, it would seem that the plane had taken a long way round and that, instead of taking the shortest route across the Atlantic, it had reached the coast of the New World farther to the north, where the Portuguese first landed, and then followed the coast.