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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 encompasses the eastern coast of North America, the entire Central and South America and parts of the western coasts of Europe and Africa. Americae Sive Quartae Orbis Partis Nova Et Exactissima Descriptio is the earliest scale wall map of the New World and the first to use the name "California". [1]
Puckapunyal's box-ironbark forest is an important site for swift parrots The entire PMA, along with two small reserves and an army munitions storage site at nearby Mangalore , has been identified by BirdLife International as a 435 km 2 Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports the largest known population of bush stone-curlews in Victoria.
Americae Sive Qvartae Orbis Partis Nova Et Exactissima Descriptio, 1562. Diego Gutiérrez was a Spanish cosmographer and cartographer of the Casa de la Contratación. [1] He was given this post by royal appointment on 22 October 1554, after the death of his father Diego Gutiérrez [2] in January 1554, and worked on the Padrón Real, the Spanish master map used on all royal sailing ships in the ...
Maps are also available as part of the Wikimedia Atlas of the World project in the Atlas of Central America. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
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 ...
Norumbega, or Nurembega, is a legendary settlement in northeastern North America which was featured on many early maps from the 16th century until European colonization of the region. [1] [2] It was alleged that the houses had pillars of gold and the inhabitants carried quarts of pearls on their heads. [3]
Matthias Ringmann (19th-century painting) Matthias Ringmann (1482–1511), also known as Philesius Vogesigena, was an Alsatian German humanist scholar and cosmographer.Along with cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, he is credited with the first documented usage of the word America, on the 1507 map Universalis Cosmographia in honour of the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci.