Cosmographiae Introductio

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Cosmographiae Introductio (Saint-Dié

Saint-Dié-des-Vosges

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, 1507) was a book published in 1507 to accompany Martin Waldseemüller

Martin Waldseemüller

Martin Waldseem?ller was a Germany cartography. He and Matthias Ringmann are credited with the first recorded usage of the word Americas, on the 1507 map Universalis Cosmographia in honor of the Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci....
's map of the world and wall-map fwhunjgtjh bi htutihgiooasgbgf gyfuhw7jhjurutyjakutjijtjm jrojtjoj[Y9T6YKK9T99Y9otlo,hkonh,k, k759j,k,jjk.

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Cosmographiae Introductio (Saint-Dié

Saint-Dié-des-Vosges

Martin Waldseemüller

Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemaeus , known in English as Ptolemy , was a Roman Greek mathematics, Greek astronomy, geographer and astrologer. He lived in History of Roman Egypt, and was probably born there in a town in the Thebaid called Ptolemais Hermiou; he died in Alexandria around 168 AD....
’s Geography
Geographia (Ptolemy)

The Geographia or Geography is Ptolemy's main work besides the Almagest. It is a compilation of what was known about the world's geography in the Roman Empire of the 2nd century....
, were very influential and widely copied at the time.

It is widely held to have been written by Matthias Ringmann

Matthias Ringmann

Matthias Ringmann was a Germany cartography and Humanism poetry. He is credited with naming Americas on the map of his friend Martin Waldseem?ller....
although some historians attribute it to Waldseemüller himself. The book includes the reason for using the vdbybnferugufgugayguyfuubggfhghe8bfrhfjgt hfngjr8nugnh8jtyijisoohgo j jgij0trj0r5

Amerigo Vespucci

Amerigo Vespucci

Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer and cartographer. The continents of The Americas are popularly understood to derive their name from the Grammatical gender Latin version of his given name ....
as an appendix.The full title of the book is: "Cosmographiae introductio cum quibusdam geometriae ac astronomiae principiis ad eam rem necessariis. Insuper quatuor Americi Vespucii navigationes. Universalis Cosmographiae descriptio tam in solido quam plano, eis etiam insertis, quae Ptholomaeo ignota a nuperis reperta sunt."

The map of the world in 1507, entitled "Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorumque lustrationes", was published in an edition of 1000 copies, of which it seems only a single copy survives. The surviving copy was found in the library of Prince von Waldburg-Wolfegg-Waldsee in the Castle of Wolfegg

Wolfegg

Wolfegg is a town in the district of Ravensburg in Baden-W?rttemberg in Germany....
in Württemberg

Württemberg

W?rttemberg [], formerly known as Wirtemberg, is an area and a former state in southwestern Germany, including parts of the regions Swabia and Franconia....
. It was bought by the Library of Congress

Library of Congress

The Library of Congress is the de facto national library of the United States and the research arm of the United States Congress. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and holds the largest number of books....
in 2001. This preservation seems to be due the several sheets being bound into a single cover by the cartographer, Johannes Schöner

Johannes Schöner

File:Johannes Schoner Astronomer 01.jpgJohannes Sch?ner was a renowned and respected Germany Humanist Renaissance Mathematicus. It is best to refer to him using the usual 16th century Latin term "mathematicus", as the areas of study to which he devoted his life were very different from those now considered to be the domain of the mathema...
.

The map consists of twelve sections printed from wood engravings measuring 18 x 24.5 inches (46 x 62 cm). Each section is one of four, that form one of three zones. The map uses a modified Ptolemaic coniform projection

Map projection

A map projection is any method of representing the surface of a sphere or other shape on a Plane . Map projections are necessary for creating maps....
with curved meridians to depict the entire surface of the Earth.

External links

at the Library of Congress (includes downloadable digital image)
University of Virginia - Novus Orbis: Images of the New World, 1507-1669