Giovanni Contarini called the land later called America by Waldseemüller the Antipodes. Waldseemüller drew upon the 1506 world map of Nicolaus de Caverio, where...
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Early world maps (redirect from Albi Mappa Mundi)
surprising detail, and was one of the primary sources used to make the Waldseemüller map in 1507. The Caverio map is currently at the Bibliothèque Nationale...
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made by Martin Waldseemüller and his colleagues at St. Dié in Lorraine in 1507. Where Schöner departs most conspicuously from Waldseemüller is in his globe's...
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retrieved 29 July 2023, translation of: Cuoghi, Diego (2003), "I Misteri Della Mappa di Piri Reis", Gli enigmi della storia, Milan: Edizioni Piemme. Deissmann...
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lacked the Americas. 1507: German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller's world map (Waldseemüller map) was the first to use the term America for the Western...
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Sinus Magnus ("Great Gulf"), the actual Gulf of Thailand. The 1507 Waldseemüller map shows Catigara in this location. Following the 1519–1521 circumnavigation...
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