| 词条 | Waldseemüller, Martin |
| 释义 | Waldseemüller, Martin German cartographer Waldseemüller also spelled Waltzemüller, or Walzenmüller, Greek Hylacomylus, or Ilacomilus born c. 1470, Radolfzell, Württemberg 【Germany】 died 1518–21?, Saint-Dié, Lorraine 【now in France】 German cartographer who in 1507 published the first map with the name America for the New World. Educated at Freiburg im Breisgau, Waldseemüller moved to Saint-Dié, where in 1507 he published 1,000 copies of a woodcut world map, made with 12 blocks and compiled from the tradition of Ptolemy and the voyages of Amerigo Vespucci; (Vespucci, Amerigo) he named the New World in Vespucci's honour. A later Carta marina (1516) was drawn in chart style. |
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