Struggle between old and new knowledge in waldseemuller map

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What does Brotton mean when he says that the creators of European maps of the Renaissance were attempting to "reconcile new information with established classical models of the world"? (p. 156) How can we see that struggle between old and new knowledge in the Waldseemüller map? Where did the "old" knowledge come from? What about the "new"?

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