Library of Congress: “Martin Waldseemüllers 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. Waldseemüllers large world map was the most exciting product of that research effort, and included data gathered during Amerigo Vespuccis voyages of 15011502 to the New World. Waldseemüller christened the new lands “America” in recognition of Vespuccis understanding that a new continent had been uncovered as a result of the voyages of Columbus and other explorers in the late fifteenth century. This is the only known surviving copy of the first printed edition of the map, which, it is believed, consisted of 1,000 copies.”
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