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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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    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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  • 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...
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    continent—Vespucci's "New World" proper—detached and floating below by itself. The Waldseemüller map of 1507, which accompanied the famous Cosmographiae Introductio...
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    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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  • 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...
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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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    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"...
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    Varela Marcos, Jesús (2007). "Martín Waldseemüller y su planisferio del año 1507: origen e influencias" (PDF). Revista de estudios colombinos (3): 7–18. Proclamation...
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  • Martin Waldseemüller (Germany, c. 1470–c. 1521/1522) Olaus Magnus (Olof Månsson) (Sweden, 1490–1557), published Carta Marina in 1539 Gabriel de Valseca...
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