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The Waldseemüller map, the first map to include the name "America" and the first to depict the Americas as separate from Asia. The map comprises 12 separate sheets, shown here into a single image. There is only one surviving copy of the map, which was purchased by the Library of Congress in 2001 for $10 million. Its Latin title is "Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii alioru[m]que lustrationes".

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Martin Waldseemüller  (1470–1520)  wikidata:Q57197 q:cs:Martin Waldseemüller
 
Martin Waldseemüller
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Martin Hylacomylus
Description cartographer, cosmographer, theologian and geographer
Date of birth/death circa 1470
date QS:P,+1470-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
 16 March 1520 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Wolfenweiler bei Freiburg im Breisgau Saint-Dié-des-Vosges
Work period 1500 Edit this at Wikidata
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