38/149 Mascarenhas discovers the islands of Bourbon and Mauritius. Martin Waldseemueller proposes to call the New World America in his _Cosmographia_. Malacca visited by Lopes di Sequira. Molucca, or Spice Islands, visited by Francisco Serrao. Strasburg Ptolemy contains twenty new maps by Waldseemueller, forming the first modern atlas. |