Martin Waldseemuller Map 1507

Columbus discovered america, vespucci sold. Waldseemuller’s map of the world, 1507; Waldseemüller was a german scholar and cartographer who, in 1507, published cosmographiaie introductio.

He was an influential mapmaker during his time whose work affected many of his contemporaries and successors. The map was titled universalis cosmographia secundum ptholomaei traditionem et americi vespucii aliorumque lustrationes (a map of the whole world according to the tradition of ptolemy and the explorations of amerigo. In fact the carta marina is in several ways more interesting than the 1507 map:

The indian ocean mapped by jorge reinel;

Martin waldseemüller’s carta marina of 1516 has always remained in the shadow of his 1507 map—less famous and less studied. In 2003, the library of congress bought martin waldseemüller’s world map for a world record $10 million dollars, because it is the first map to name america and show the pacific. A short history of martin waldseemüller. The total number of people on earth has been increasing for centuries, and it looks as though that trend will continue into the future.