• Thumbnail for Waldseemüller map
    The Waldseemüller map or Universalis Cosmographia ("Universal Cosmography") is a printed wall map of the world by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller...
    51 KB (7,080 words) - 02:22, 6 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cantino planisphere
    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,...
    18 KB (2,414 words) - 05:06, 20 October 2024
  • primary sources used to make the Waldseemüller map in 1507. The Caverio map is currently at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris. Johannes Ruysch...
    73 KB (8,680 words) - 15:00, 26 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for New World
    continent—Vespucci's "New World" proper—detached and floating below by itself. The Waldseemüller map of 1507, which accompanied the famous Cosmographiae Introductio...
    26 KB (3,293 words) - 05:23, 30 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Name of Brazil
    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...
    16 KB (2,227 words) - 13:41, 4 May 2024
  • which in 1507 was named "America", after Amerigo Vespucci, on the Waldseemüller map. In 1500, Pedro Álvares Cabral was sent by Portugal to explore South...
    24 KB (3,106 words) - 16:14, 1 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Caverio map
    Caverio map (category Bibliothèque nationale de France collections)
    used to make the Waldseemüller map in 1507. On the basis of this it is mostly dated to c. 1506. The map is signed with "Nicolay de Caveri Januensis"...
    4 KB (506 words) - 20:26, 22 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Spanish Florida
    Varela Marcos, Jesús (2007). "Martín Waldseemüller y su planisferio del año 1507: origen e influencias" (PDF). Revista de estudios colombinos (3): 7–18. Proclamation...
    80 KB (9,923 words) - 13:42, 25 October 2024
  • Martin Waldseemüller (Germany, c. 1470–c. 1521/1522) Olaus Magnus (Olof Månsson) (Sweden, 1490–1557), published Carta Marina in 1539 Gabriel de Valseca...
    30 KB (3,143 words) - 19:02, 18 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mercator 1569 world map
    Sjoerd de Meer. Some world maps of the Renaissance up to 1569 — various projections Claudius Ptolemy 1482 Cantino c. 1502 (Padrão Real) Waldseemüller 1508...
    153 KB (6,277 words) - 12:06, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Piri Reis map
    Cedid Atlas Geography in medieval Islam Early world maps World map Waldseemüller map Johannes Schöner globes, made in 1515 and 1520. Also shows a Southern...
    58 KB (6,813 words) - 16:07, 1 November 2024
  • Padrón Real Relaciones geográficas Waldseemüller map Kagan, Richard. "Projecting Order: Plano fundacional de San Juan de la Frontera (Argentina)." In Mapping...
    9 KB (1,216 words) - 14:17, 5 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dieppe maps
    2015-08-31. "Deutsche Fotothek". Deutschefotothek.de. 1970-01-01. Retrieved 2015-08-31. "[Planisphère] / A Dieppe par Nicolas Desliens, 1566" (in French)...
    74 KB (10,345 words) - 06:56, 10 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Age of Discovery
    "invention" for the European encounters, with the exception of Martin Waldseemüller, whose map first used the term "America". A central legal concept of...
    206 KB (23,903 words) - 22:59, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of cartography
    lacked the Americas. 1507: German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller's world map (Waldseemüller map) was the first to use the term America for the Western...
    143 KB (17,630 words) - 05:40, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
    Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    though seemed to be related to the project. The cartographers Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann dedicated their famous work Universalis Cosmographia...
    392 KB (43,603 words) - 18:02, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cartography
    Portugal, made the oldest extant globe of the Earth. In 1507, Martin Waldseemüller produced a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map (Universalis...
    61 KB (7,325 words) - 08:55, 29 October 2024
  • History of Germany (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    being Nuremberg, at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann's Universalis Cosmographia and the 1513 edition...
    356 KB (41,755 words) - 08:26, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1500s (decade)
    1500s (decade) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    dogeship will remain vacant again for five years. April 25 – Martin Waldseemüller publishes his Cosmographiae Introductio ("Introduction to Universal...
    2 KB (26,906 words) - 09:45, 7 May 2024