Quotes by Martin Waldseemüller

About Martin Waldseemüller:

Martin Waldseemüller was a German cartographer. He and Matthias Ringmann are credited with the first recorded usage of the word America, on the 1507 map Universalis Cosmographia in honour of the Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci.
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ab Americo Inventore ...quasi Americi terram sive Americam From Amerigo the discoverer ...as if it were the land of Americus, thus America.

Martin Waldseemüller

Author Bio

  • NameMartin Waldseemüller
  • DescriptionGerman cartographer
  • Born1470
  • DiedMarch 16, 1520
  • CountryGermany
  • ProfessionCartographer