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The map also first showed the Pacific Ocean, separating the Americas from Asia. [2] The map is drafted on a modification of Ptolemy's second projection, expanded to accommodate the Americas and the high latitudes. [3] A single copy of the map survives, presently housed at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
The naming of America : Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 world map and the Cosmographiae introductio. GILES. ISBN 978-1904832492. King, Robert J. (2022). "The Antipodes on Martin Waldseemuller's 1507 World Map". The Globe (91): 43– 60 – via ProQuest. Lester, Toby (2009a) Putting America on the Map, Smithsonian, Volume 40, Number 9, p. 78 ...
The Waldseemüller map, the first map to include the name "America" and the first to depict the Americas as separate from Asia. The map comprises 12 separate sheets, shown here into a single image. There is only one surviving copy of the map, which was purchased by the Library of Congress in 2001 for $10 million. Its Latin title is "Universalis ...
English: Waldseemüller map from 1507 is the first map to include the name "America" and the first to depict the Americas as separate from Asia. There is only one surviving copy of the map, which was purchased by the Library of Congress in 2001 for $10 million.
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The Waldseemuller Map has been called "America's birth certificate" [53] Waldseemüller also created printed maps called globe gores, that could be cut out and glued to spheres resulting in a globe. This has been debated widely as being dismissive of the extensive Native American history that predated the 16th-century invasion, in the sense ...
There is only one surviving copy of the map, which was purchased by the Library of Congress in 2001 for ten million dollars. Non-composite version Reason Another gem from the LOC - a ridiculously high-res scan of the only surviving copy of the first map to name America. To get this under the 20 meg max I downsampled to 75%, then compressed ...
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, coming from the Old ...