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+ Display larger image Martin Waldseemüller, UNIVERSALIS COSMOGRAPHIA SECUNDUM PTHOLOMAEI TRADITIONEM ET AMERICI VESPUCII ALIORU[M]QUE LUSTRATIONES, (1507) Courtesy Library of Congress.
| Creator | Martin Waldseemüller |
| Context | This map was created just fifteen years after Columbus's first landing in the Americas. |
| Audience | Educated Europeans |
| Purpose | To better understand the world's extent |
This map, completed by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in 1507, reveals how profoundly Europe's view of the world had changed just a quarter century later. The world's five major continents are more defined- though Europeans' knowledge remained distorted and incomplete.
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