1470 - 1520
Martin Waldseemüller German Scientist
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| First Name |
Martin
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| Last Name |
Waldseemüller
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1469
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| Birthplace |
Wolfenweiler
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| Died |
16th March, 1520
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| Place of Death |
Sankt Didel
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| Nationality |
German
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| Occupation Text |
Cartographer
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| Occupation |
Scientist
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Martin Waldseemüller (c.– 16 March 1520) was a German cartographer and humanist scholar. Sometimes known by the Hellenized form of his name, Hylacomylus, his work was influential among contemporary cartographers. His collaborator Matthias Ringmann and he are credited with the first recorded usage of the word America to name a portion of the New World in honour of Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci in a world map they delineated in 1507. The same map was the first to show the Americas as a distinct landmass clearly separated from Asia by the Pacific Ocean. Waldseemüller was also the first to produce a printed globe and the first to create a printed wall map of Europe. A set of his maps printed as an appendix to the 1513 edition of Ptolemy's Geography is considered to be the first example of a modern atlas.
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