The two names he put on his 1538 world map are the ones we've used ever since: North America and South America. Ringmann didn't have long to live after finishing the Introduction to Cosmography.

North America is the third largest continent in the world. It is located in the Northern Hemisphere. The north of the continent is within the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Cancer passes through ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World. The “Visscher Map of the New World” including North and South America ...