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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, originally published in April 1507. It is known as the first map to use the name "America". The name America is placed on South America on the main map.
Jul 3, 2018 · The map, printed in 1507, measured about 1.4m by 2.4m, a size that matched its grand ambition to portray the world in its entirety. And indeed, it did depict more of the world than ever before.
Nov 27, 2017 · by Sarah Laskow November 27, 2017. For sale: a Waldseemüller world map in the form of a set of gores for a globe, 1507. Courtesy of Christie’s. In 1507, German cartographer Martin ...
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The Waldseemüller map, printed in 1507, depicted the New World in a new way. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress. It was a curious little book. When a few copies began resurfacing, in ...
Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 world map grew out of an ambitious project in St. Dié, near Strasbourg, France, during the first decade of the sixteenth century, to document and update new geographic knowledge derived from the discoveries of the late fifteenth and the first years of the sixteenth centuries.
2145 or 1764 or 992. Unix time. 1514764800 – 1546300799. 2018 ( MMXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2018th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 18th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 9th year of the 2010s decade.
