Martin Waldseem oller World Map, 1507

Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorumque lustrationes. Martin WaldseemColler (September 11, 1470 - March 16, 1520) was a German cartographer. In 1507 he produced a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map using the information from Columbus and Vespucci's travels (Universalis Cosmographia), both bearing the first use of the name America. The globular and wall maps were accompanied by a book Cosmographiae Introductio, an introduction to cosmography. The wall map was lost for a long time, but a copy was found in Schloss Wolfegg in southern Germany by Joseph Fischer in 1901

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