Americae siue Novi Orbus (America or The New World). That this entire Hemisphere or half globe (which is now called America, and with regard to its large size The New world) should lie concealed from our ancestors until the year of Christ 1492, at which time Christopher Columbus from Genoa first discovered it, is a matter which seems to surpass the measure of human admiration.” from text on back of map translated by Marcel van den Broecke”