Lula da Silva defended the map, stating, “The Earth is round. Our perspective matters.” Brazil has launched a new world map that places the South American nation at the center of the world ...

One map, part of cartographer Johannes Ruysch’s Ptolemaic Atlas, calls South America “Terra Sancta Crucis sive Mundus Novus” (the Land of the Holy Cross or New World).

This map, added by Hack to show the route sailed by Sharpe and his men around South America, comes from a 1684 version of the atlas that was presented to King Charles II. Courtesy British Library ...