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The Waldseemüller map or Universalis Cosmographia ("Universal Cosmography") is a printed wall map of the world by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, originally published in April 1507. It is known as the first map to use the name "America". The name America is placed on South America on the main map.
The map of Juan de la Cosa is a world map that includes the earliest known representation of the New World and the first depiction of the equator and the Tropic of Cancer on a nautical chart. The map is attributed to the Castilian navigator and cartographer, Juan de la Cosa , and was likely created in 1500.
Battista Agnese's 1544 world map Jodocus Hondius' Leo Belgicus (1611) Gerardus Mercator's 1587 world map World map from the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius. Giovanni Battista Agnese (c. 1500–1564), Genoese, cartographer, author of numerous nautical atlases
The wall map was decorated with prominent portraits of Ptolemy and Vespucci. The map and globe were notable for showing the New World as a continent separate from Asia and for naming the southern landmass America. By April 1507, the map, globe and accompanying book, Introduction to Cosmography, were published. A thousand copies were printed and ...
In his world map of 1321 he brought his experience as a maker of portolans to bear; the map introduced a previously unheard of accuracy to the mappa mundi genre. [31] The world map, as well as a map of the Holy Land and plan of Acre and Jerusalem were made for inclusion in Marino Sanuto's Liber Secretorum Fidelium Crucis. [32]
The 1550 world map (2150 × 1350 mm), made for Henry II, showing his arms as well as those of Anne de Montmorency (Marshal of France) and Admiral Claude d'Annebaut. This chart is preserved in London, at the British Library (Add MS 24065), having been purchased from Cristoforo Negri by the British Museum in 1861. [5] [6] [7] The 1553 world map.
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A world map by Guillaume Brouscon, an example of a Dieppe map, 1543. The Dieppe maps are a series of world maps and atlases produced in Dieppe , France, in the 1540s, 1550s, and 1560s. They are large hand-produced works, commissioned for wealthy and royal patrons, including Kings Henry II of France and Henry VIII of England .