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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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  • Italian Francesco Maurolico Cosmographia Blaviana, an alternative name for Joan Blaeu's Atlas Maior Universalis Cosmographia, a sixteenth-century map by...
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    to accompany Martin Waldseemüller's printed globe and wall-map (Universalis Cosmographia). The book and map contain the first mention of the term 'America'...
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    separate land. In 1507 Martin Waldseemüller published a world map, Universalis Cosmographia, which was the first to show North and South America as separate...
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    scholars have adopted the term as an objection to colonialism. "Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii alioru[m]que...
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    American Biography. 1900. World Digital Library presentation of Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorum que...
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    the first documented usage of the word America, on the 1507 map Universalis Cosmographia in honour of the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci. Ringmann was...
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  • Universalis Cosmographia, the "Waldseemüller map" dated 1507, depicts the Americas, Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific Ocean separating Asia from the...
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    Universalis Cosmographia, also known as the Waldseemüller map, dated 1507, was the first map to show the Americas separating two distinct oceans. South...
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    produced a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map (Universalis Cosmographia) bearing the first use of the name "America." Portuguese cartographer...
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    of the new breed of scientific geography. The Waldseemüller map Universalis Cosmographia, created by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in April 1507...
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    rather than the eastern limit of Asia. On April 25, 1507, the map Universalis Cosmographia, created by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, was published...
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    The Cosmographia ("Cosmography") from 1544 by Sebastian Münster (1488–1552) is the earliest German-language description of the world. It had numerous editions...
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    Culture of a People. ABC-CLIO. p. 504. ISBN 978-1-6106-9995-2. "Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii alioru[m]que...
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  • Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann dedicated their famous work Universalis Cosmographia to Maximilian, although the direct backer was Rene II of Loraine...
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    genovés." In 1507, Martin Waldseemüller published a world map, Universalis Cosmographia, which was the first to show North and South America as separate...
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    15th century: The German monk Nicolaus Germanus wrote a pioneering Cosmographia. He added the first new maps to Ptolemy's Geographica. Germanus invented...
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    Frassicomo. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 October 2022. "Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii alioru[m]que...
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    Frassicomo. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 October 2022. "Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii alioru[m]que...
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  • sixteenth century. Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann's Universalis Cosmographia and the 1513 edition of Geography marked the climax of a cartography...
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    which had been introduced in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller in his Universalis Cosmographia, though for a continent located to the south of India. A replica...
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    Honter's 1546 map Universalis Cosmographia...
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    and Cultural Organization". unesco.org. Retrieved 7 April 2020. "Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorumque...
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  • Waldseemüller: Cartographer, used the name "America" on his map Universalis Cosmographia in honour of the Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci. The map...
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  • 2020, pp. 85-134. Hébert, John. "America: Martin Waldseemüller, Universalis cosmographia 1507." In Mapping Latin America, pp. 29-32. Ireland, Gordon. Boundaries...
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    reproduction of the Lord's Prayer in Latvian in Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia universalis (1544), in Latin script. Latvian belongs to the Indo-European language...
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    Introductio (a revolutionary work in cartography, together with the map Universalis Cosmographia that accompanies it), Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann...
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    A decapitation scene as shown in Cosmographia universalis of Sebastian Münster (1552)....
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    University of Basel. His well-known work, the highly accurate world map, Cosmographia, sold well and went through 24 editions. Its influence was widely spread...
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    to a Scythian deity, who is referenced in Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia universalis. The idea of Ash as an import god is contested, as he may have...
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