Martin Waldseemüller (c. 1470 – 16 March 1520) was a German cartographer and humanist scholar. Sometimes known by the Latinized form of his name, Hylacomylus...

The Waldseemüller map or Universalis Cosmographia ("Universal Cosmography") is a printed wall map of the world by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller...

which he called the "New World". The claim inspired cartographer Martin Waldseemüller to recognize Vespucci's accomplishments in 1507 by applying the Latinized...

largest wall map made to date, both created by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges in France. These were the first maps to show...

when it appeared on a world map created by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, in honor of Vespucci, applied to the land that is now Brazil. The...

German humanist scholar and cosmographer. Along with cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, he is credited with the first documented usage of the word America...

featured authors, with three separate works, while Albert Einstein, Martin Waldseemüller, George Washington, André Breton, Robert Schumann, and Charlotte...

It uses the name "America", which had been introduced in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller in his Universalis Cosmographia, though for a continent located to...

Ptolemaic Taprobane. Waldseemüller, Martin; von Wieser, Fr Ritter (1908). The Cosmographiæ Introductio of Martin Waldseemüller in Facsimile: Followed...

America first appeared on a map in 1507 by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, referring to the area now called Brazil]. Since the 16th century...

on his world map of 1506 called the land later named America by Martin Waldseemüller. When the land discovered by Pedro Alvarez Cabral in April 1500,...

"America" was first recorded in 1507. A two-dimensional globe created by Martin Waldseemüller was the earliest recorded use of the term. The name was also used...

instrument in the appendix of his 1512 book Margarita Philosophica. Martin Waldseemüller, a topographer and cartographer made the device in that year calling...

Cosmographiæ Introductio of Martin Waldseemüller (Facsimile), via Google Books. Joseph Fischer (1913). "Martin Waldseemüller" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed...

after the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci by German cartographers Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann. Vespucci explored South America between 1497...

far south as California. The source of this idea is unknown. The Martin Waldseemüller map of 1506 or 1507 shows America and Asia separated. A 1562 map...

discovered western land was in fact a continent. The German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller created the earliest known map showing the name America, which he...

of the egg globe. A facsimile globe showing America was made by Martin Waldseemüller in 1507. Another "remarkably modern-looking" terrestrial globe of...

Introductio 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...

connected to Asia and showed South America as a separate land. In 1507 Martin Waldseemüller published a world map, Universalis Cosmographia, which was the first...

lands 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...

1310–1388), fabled alchemist who introduced gunpowder to Germany Martin Waldseemüller (c.1470–1520), Renaissance cartographer Joseph von Auffenberg (1798–1857)...

Saint-Dié, 1507) is a book that was published in 1507 to accompany Martin Waldseemüller's printed globe and wall-map (Universalis Cosmographia). The book...

"invention" for the European encounters, with the notable exception of Martin Waldseemüller, whose map first used the term "America". A central legal concept...

by the sea”. This is drawn from the Cosmographiae Introductio of Martin Waldseemüller, which said: Hitherto [the whole earth] has been divided into three...

separate landmass hitherto unknown to the peoples of the Old World. Martin Waldseemüller coined the term America (in honor of Vespucci) in a 1507 world map...

southernmost Africa, "Dixerto dexabitado p. chaldo e p. serpent". Martin Waldseemüller's Carta marina navigatoria (1516) has "an elephant-like creature in...

Hugenius (Christiaan Huygens) Martinus Hylacomylus or Ilacomilus (Martin Waldseemüller) Cornelius Iansenius (Cornelius Jansen) Iohannes Iessenius (János...

rocky promontory overlooking the ocean. Its location was marked on Martin Waldseemüller's world map of 1507. When Francis Xavier visited Malindi in 1542 he...

Antoine Lafréry in 1572. Anders Bure, founder of Swedish cartography Martin Waldseemüller, who had created an earlier similar map of the world in 1516 with...