1507 Map Of The World

1507 Map Of The World. 1507 Waldseemuller Map of America Universalis Cosmographia First Martin Waldseemüller's World Map of 1507, the FIRST map to use the name "America" to label the New WorldThis highly significant map of the world eluded examination by modern scholars for nearly four hundred years until its re-discovery in 1901 by the Jesuit historian, Joseph Fisher, in the library of Prince von Waldburg zu Wolfegg-Waldsee at the Castle of Wolfegg, Württemberg Germany The Waldseemüller map, printed in 1507, depicted the New World in a new way

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

Map of the Known World by Johannes Ruysch, 1507. conic projection

Waldseemüller's map represented a revolutionary new geography: it was the first map, printed or manuscript, to depict clearly a separate Western Hemisphere, separated from Asia, with the Pacific as a separate ocean. Dié, France, during the first decade of the sixteenth century It is known as the first map to use the name "America"

Europe 1430, 15851615 (Map Game) Alternative History FANDOM. Courtesy of Christie's In 1507, German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller created a map unlike any other. Students will investigate this map by looking closely at the details of each section of the map and then.

Waldseemuller 1507 World Map Photograph by Vladimir Berrio Lemm Pixels. Dié, France, during the first decade of the sixteenth century One of the most notable items is the only surviving copy of Martin Waldseemüller's world map from 1507