First Map Of North America
First map of north america
The waldseemüller map or universalis cosmographia universal cosmography is a printed wall map of the world by german cartographer martin waldseemüller originally published in april 1507. It is known as the first map to use the name america.
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The first edition was published by paolo forlani.
The map being offered here is the very first to focus on north america and to show it as an entirely separate continent. In 1500 the spanish made their move to colonize parts of the new world. Only seven original copies exist and the best preserved. Giovanni da verrazzano explored the east coast of north america from florida to eastern canada in 1524 and jacques cartier made a series of voyages on behalf of the french crown in 1534 and penetrated the st.
The map of north americaconsists of north american peninsula central america and the caribbean. The name america is placed on what is now called south america on the main map. The only known copy of the wall map nicknamed the birth certificate of america was presented by germany to the library of congress in 2007. October 2014 the first map of the united states drawn and printed in america by an american was until a few years ago hardly known at all.
The north americamapshows border by arctic ocean to the north pacific ocean to the south and west atlantic ocean to the east and south america and caribbean sea to the south east. North and south america this map drawn in 1540 by by sebastian münster was the very first printed map that called the great body of water to the west of the land by the name pacific. Four copies of the segmental map are held by. Published in venice in 1566 this is the second edition of the map with the imprint of bolognini zaltieri.
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