Out of My Mind
OUT OF MY MIND I’ve read that in the collection of the New York Public Library there is a copper globe dating from 1510 called “The Hunt - Lenox Globe.” On the globe is etched the outlines of the continents and countries as they were known at that time. Off the coast of Asia appear these words in the Latin language, “HC SVNT DRACONES" which means "here are dragons." They reflected the map maker’s fear of the dangers that might lie ahead in unexplored and unknown regions. The story is told that when one explorer saw the globe for the...