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In 1807 Webster began compiling an expanded and fully comprehensive dictionary, An American Dictionary of the English Language; it took twenty-seven years to complete. To evaluate the etymology of words, Webster learned twenty-six languages, including Old English (Anglo-Saxon), German, Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Arabic, and ...
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Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 world map grew out of an ambitious project in St. Dié, near Strasbourg, France, during the first decade of the sixteenth century, to document and update new geographic knowledge derived from the discoveries of the late fifteenth and the first years of the sixteenth centuries.
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Apr 30, 2007 · The year was 1507. A landlocked German cartographer created a surprisingly accurate map of the world, and used the word "America" to honor explorer Amerigo Vespucci. This is believed to be the ...
Nov 27, 2017 · by Sarah Laskow November 27, 2017. For sale: a Waldseemüller world map in the form of a set of gores for a globe, 1507. Courtesy of Christie’s. In 1507, German cartographer Martin ...
Jan 13, 2011 · Jan 13, 2011 11:30 AM. How the Oxford English Dictionary started out like Wikipedia. It's the late-nineteenth century. Professor James Murray is leading a literary project that draws from the...
Apr 8, 2022 · Sixteenth-Century English Dictionaries is the first volume in the trilogy Dictionaries in the English-Speaking World, 1500–1800. It offers a new history of the dictionaries, wordlists, and glossaries which were compiled and read by speakers of English from the end of the Middle Ages to the year 1600: in print and manuscript; monolingual ...
