1507
Universalis Cosmographia
Martin Waldseemüller
1507
Universalis Cosmographia
Martin Waldseemüller
Period original
What this plate depicts
A twelve-sheet world map. The Atlantic is open. A separate western landmass is drawn apart from Asia. The name America appears on this map — the first printed use of the name. The Pacific is not yet a surveyed ocean. North America’s west coast is not a measured California; it is an unfinished edge of a newly named world.
- Source
- Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division (the 1507 world map).
- License
- Public domain (published 1507).
Compare with the next
Record this sheet first. Then set it beside another plate. Nothing is redrawn to make them agree.