Martin Waldseemüller (c. 1470 – 16 March 1520) was a German cartographer and humanist scholar. Sometimes known by the Latinized form of his name, Hylacomylus...
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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...
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of Spain and Portugal, with the name given by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller. However, some have suggested other explanations, including being...
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German humanist scholar and cosmographer. Along with cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, he is credited with the first documented usage of the word America...
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which he called the "New World". The claim inspired cartographer Martin Waldseemüller to recognize Vespucci's accomplishments in 1507 by applying the Latinized...
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when it appeared on a world map created by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, in honor of Vespucci, applied to the land that is now Brazil. The...
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featured authors, with three separate works, while Albert Einstein, Martin Waldseemüller, George Washington, André Breton, Robert Schumann, and Charlotte...
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website The Cosmographiæ Introductio of Martin Waldseemüller (Facsimile). Joseph Fischer (1913). "Martin Waldseemüller" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic...
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Ptolemaic Taprobane. Waldseemüller, Martin; von Wieser, Fr Ritter (1908). The Cosmographiæ Introductio of Martin Waldseemüller in Facsimile: Followed...
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on his world map of 1506 called the land later named America by Martin Waldseemüller. When the land discovered by Pedro Alvarez Cabral in April 1500,...
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America first appeared on a map in 1507 by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, referring to the area now called Brazil]. Since the 16th century...
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far south as California. The source of this idea is unknown. The Martin Waldseemüller map of 1506 or 1507 shows America and Asia separated. A 1562 map...
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connected to Asia and showed South America as a separate land. In 1507 Martin Waldseemüller published a world map, Universalis Cosmographia, which was the first...
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after the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci by German cartographers Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann. Vespucci explored South America between 1497...
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discovered western land was in fact a continent. The German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller created the earliest known map showing the name America, which he...
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separate landmass hitherto unknown to the peoples of the Old World. Martin Waldseemüller coined the term America (in honor of Vespucci) in a 1507 world map...
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Saint-Dié, 1507) is a book that was published in 1507 to accompany Martin Waldseemüller's printed globe and wall-map (Universalis Cosmographia). The book...
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by the sea”. This is drawn from the Cosmographiae Introductio of Martin Waldseemüller, which said: Hitherto [the whole earth] has been divided into three...
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term "invention" for the European encounters, with the exception of Martin Waldseemüller, whose map first used the term "America". A central legal concept...
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instrument in the appendix of his 1512 book Margarita Philosophica. Martin Waldseemüller, a topographer and cartographer made the device in that year calling...
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Introductio put out by a German academy, which contains the famous map by Martin Waldseemüller with the Brazilian landmass designated by the name America. The accompanying...
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"America" was first recorded in 1507. A two-dimensional globe created by Martin Waldseemüller was the earliest recorded use of the term. The name was also used...
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of the egg globe. A facsimile globe showing America was made by Martin Waldseemüller in 1507. Another "remarkably modern-looking" terrestrial globe of...
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lands on the highly influential wall map of the world produced by Martin Waldseemüller in 1507 under the auspices of Rene, Duke of Lorraine. This old map...
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Georg Thym, German teacher, poet and writer (died 1560) March 16 – Martin Waldseemüller, German humanist and cartographer (born c.1470) May 31 – Johannes...
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Antoine Lafréry in 1572. Anders Bure, founder of Swedish cartography Martin Waldseemüller, who had created an earlier similar map of the world in 1516 with...
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It uses the name "America", which had been introduced in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller in his Universalis Cosmographia, though for a continent located to...
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of Christopher Columbus Old West + Mountain men Amerigo Vespucci, Martin Waldseemüller + Matthias Ringmann: originators of term America Diffie, Bailey (1960)...
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1310–1388), fabled alchemist who introduced gunpowder to Germany Martin Waldseemüller (c.1470–1520), Renaissance cartographer Joseph von Auffenberg (1798–1857)...
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rocky promontory overlooking the ocean. Its location was marked on Martin Waldseemüller's world map of 1507. When Francis Xavier visited Malindi in 1542 he...
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