Vintage Poster - Waldseemuller map - 42.5"x24"

Originally published in 1507, "Universalis Cosmographia" (its creator, called the German cartographer Martin Waldseem. "Waldseem® Map") is called the first map in the history that referred to "America" . At the end of this wall chart the copy, each 18 x 24.5 inch thick 4 x 3 thick board is currently in the Library of Parliament. In this era of literature, the Americas were thought to be the only "islands" surrounded by water, but until the mapmakers believed that the Americas were surrounded by water until that time an error Part of the concept of India

It is the German named Martin Waldseemuller who is responsible for the origin of the name and name of the land. Martin Waldseemuller is making a world map based on Ptolemy's work. Martin Waldseemuller read the voyage journey discovered by Amerigo Vespucci and noticed that the New World is the two continents. Martin Waldseemuller named this new continent after Amerigo Vespucci. Martin Waldseemuller printed a map of a tree block called "Carta Mariana" called "America" ​​and distributed it to the southern continent of the New World.

Who wrote the name of Christian in Vespucci on the map? King of Spain? Our founder? Vespucci himself? No, it is not. Our name was named after the less well known German pastor and amateur geographer Waldseemuller. Waldseemuller is a member of the Small Literature Club and announced the introduction of cosmology in 1507. He wrote a new land explored by Vespucci:

When the parents of the Library of Congress prepared for packaging in Washington on December 3, 2007, they used the map of the United States for the first time. This 500 years ago map created by German monk, Martin Waldseemuller, is the only known map. The surviving copies were purchased for $ 10 million in 2003.