# Martin Waldseemüller

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Chet Van Duzer, "Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale (c. 1491): Multispectral Imaging, Sources, and Influence" (Springer, 2019)

Chet Van Duzer, an accomplished historian of cartography, trains his sight in this book on one uniquely important map produced in early modern Europe. The 1491 world map by Henricus Martellus has long been deemed “an essentially unstudiable object,” its legends and descriptions illegible to the una…

Chet Van Duzer, "Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale (c. 1491): Multispectral Imaging, Sources, and Influence" (Springer, 2019)

Chet Van Duzer, an accomplished historian of cartography, trains his sight in this book on one uniquely important map produced in early modern Europe. The 1491 world map by Henricus Martellus has long been deemed “an essentially unstudiable object,” its legends and descriptions illegible to the una…

Legends on Martin Waldseemüller's Carta Marina of 1516

Martin Waldseemüller's Carta marina of 1516 has always remained in the shadow of his 1507 map--less famous and less studied. In fact the Carta marina is in several ways more interesting than the 1507 map: it is the result of Waldseemüller's radical re-evaluation of what a world map should be. Walds…

Etimology Of America

In 1507, German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller drew a map of the world in which there was the word "America" ​​to refer to the western continent. The naming is named after an Italian explorer and cartographer named Amerigo Vespucci. The first documentation related to the use of the phrase "Unite…

Ep. 201: Mapping the World, or how Germans invented America

When you enter the great hall of the Thomas Jefferson building at the Library of Congress in Washington, the first exhibit you will be facing is their Gutenberg Bible. And it is one of the finest Gutenberg bibles around, one of only three surviving pristine copies on vellum. This was the kind of bi…

Mapping the World, or how Germans invented America

When you enter the great hall of the Thomas Jefferson building at the Library of Congress in Washington, the first exhibit you will be facing is their Gutenberg Bible. And it is one of the finest Gutenberg bibles around, one of only three surviving pristine copies on vellum. This was the kind of bi…

America Was Named After An Immigrant.

“America First.” “Close the borders.” “Send them back.” Here’s the thing nobody screaming those slogans seems to know: The United States of America is literally named after an immigrant. Amerigo Vespucci. Born in Florence, Italy, 1454. He sailed to the New World in the 1490s and became the first Eu…

I Found a Dead Rat. It Led Me Into the Sixteenth Century.

Nothing alive had any business smelling this bad.. Rats. Somewhere in a wall cavity, a rat had died. It could have had the common decency of dying somewhere in plain sight but I shan’t complain overly much. At least it had had the decency of not bothering us when it was still alive. But it was clea…