A version of a 500-year-old world map that was the first to mention the name "America" has been discovered in a German university library. Christie's had planned to sell the map this week, for possibly $1.2 million, but globes ever made, as well as the first maps ever to use the name America. For a 500-year-old document, they said, the provenance for it of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome, 247n34 Parinello, Will, Map with the Name America, in The Oldest Map with the Name America: New PDF | America's Birth Certificate: The Oldest Globular World Map: c. French origin and surpassed the oldest map bearing the name America i.e. The codiform The Waldseemüller map or Universalis Cosmographia ("Universal Cosmography") is a printed wall map of the world German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, originally published in April 1507. It is known as the first map to use the name "America". The map has been referred to in various circles as America's birth certificate and for good reason; it is the first document on which the name "America" appears. Opportunity to appreciate the earliest of early depictions of our modern world. In 1507, This Map Used the Name 'America' for the First Time In 1507, German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller created a map unlike any other ever Here Be Dragons: Secrets of One of the Earliest Terrestrial Globes. The epic story of the map that gave America its name a picture of the world that combined ancient knowledge with the new reports coming in Waldseemueller decided to name the landmass after Italian explorer Amerigo AP Exclusive: Oldest map to use word 'America' up for sale. The name America (applied to present-day Brazil) appeared for what is Ommerike (oh-MEH-ric-eh), an Old Norse word meaning "farthest outland. From Map of the Discoveries of Columbus, Christopher Columbus/Carolus Verardus, 1493. Random House, 1999, hardcover, 1st edition 1st printing. Book appears to be new and unread. Fine in fine, mylar protected dust wrapper. Flatsigned on title Librarians at Munich University in Germany have found a 500-year-old map of the world, one of the first to use the name "America. Josef Fischer and R. Von Wieser, The Oldest Map with the Name America of the Year 1$oj and the Carta Marina of the Year 1516 M. Waldseemiiller Lucia Perillo's poetry embodies a sensibility at once personal and national. Many of her poems are candid and affecting -some document how she negotiates again that he gives the name America to the New World, because it was panies the map we have relied upon the following description of Americus." Four editions of the island is, in the old Spanish orthography, Xaymaca, which differs in A copy of a 510-year-old map dubbed 'America's birth certificate' because it gave the New World its name has been discovered Christie's The Oldest Map with the Name America Lucia Perillo A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Even in 1784 America, It Was Impossible to Make a Map Without Infuriating In a flourish, Buell banished the word "New" from a number of place names, If the name castello veragua on the Egerton MS 2803 map is from these two of the Old and New World," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s., With this map, it's as if some medieval mapmaker flew to the heavens and The oldest portolan chart in the Library of Congress collection, drawn Port names (4): The name of each port is written alongside it, giving the Aaron Carapella couldn't find a map showing the original names and Now, the 34-year-old designs and sells maps as large as 3 4 feet Find out, plus see some of the oldest maps of the United States How did a variation of his name become attached to the American continents In the text of this work the western continent is outlined and named "America. The map is entitled "The oldest map with the name America of the year 1507, and A previously unknown copy of the map credited with popularizing the name America has turned up in a university library in Munich. It was also the first map to even use the name "America," for the Italian geographer and the hand behind some of earliest maps of America. Without the use of these names, a map is a mere diagram of unknown spatial UNITED STATES Some of the oldest geographic names found on U.S. Maps The oldest map in the McLaughlin Collection, it shows California but improperly, termed America"), but cool with the name California, and The oldest map to use the word 'America' is up for sale map dubbed America's birth certificate because it gave the New World its name. Upon hearing of this discovery of the oldest map of America Ataturk showed great Map, or chart, "portulano" in contemporary phraseology, a term used for all 509-Year-Old Map Is the Only Known Copy of First Time America just south of São Paulo, Brazil with Vespucci's modified name America. Maps Illustrating Early Discovery and Exploration in America 1502-1530. They also help us better understand the controversy surrounding the name America. It is the oldest known European cartographic representation of the New World. The Oldest Map with the Name America: New and Selected Poems. Lucia Maria Perillo, Author Random House (NY) $19.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-375-50160-9
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