Mapa de Waldseemüller
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O Mapa de Waldseemüller, ou Universalis Cosmographia, é um mapa do mundo impresso pelo cartografo alemão Martin Waldseemüller, originalmente publicado em abril de 1507.1 2
É o primeiro mapa do mundo a utilizar o termo "América". 3 Foi desenhada baseando-se no mapa de Ptolomeu, expandido para acomodar as Americas e as altas latidutes.4
Uma cópia do mapa ainda existe na Biblioteca do Congresso em Washington, D.C..5 6 7
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Referências [editar]
- ↑ Waldseemüller, Martin (after 1507), Globensegmente, http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13138/, visitado em 2012-07-03
- ↑ E.G. Ravenstein, Martin Behaim: His Life and His Globe, London, George Philip, 1908, p.36.
- ↑ Alexander, David. "Map that named America is a puzzle for researchers", Reuters, 2007-12-05. Página visitada em 2007-12-05.
- ↑ Snyder, John P. (1993). Flattening the Earth: 2000 Years of Map Projections, p. 33. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
- ↑ Hébert, John. (2003-09). "The Map That Named America". Library of Congress Information Bulletin. Library of Congress.
- ↑ Hunc in modum terra iam quadripartita cognoscitur: & sunt tres primae partes continentes: quarta est insula: cum omni quamque mari circumdata conspiciatur...Nunc vero & haec partes sunt latius lustratae & alia quarta pars per Americum Vesputium (ut in sequentibus audietur) inuenta est.
- ↑ Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (2012-07-03). Unexpected find in LMU Library: Rare map related to America's "birth certificate". Press release. Página visitada em 2012-07-03.
- Lester, Toby: A world redrawn
- Toby Lester, "Putting America on the Map", Smithsonian, Volume 40, Number 9, p. 78, December 2009
Literatura [editar]
- Lester, Toby: The Fourth Part of the World: An Astonishing Epic of Global Discovery, Imperial Ambition, and the Birth of America, Free Press, 2010, 496 p. ISBN 1-4165-3534-9.
Ligações externas [editar]
- 1507 Waldseemüller Map from the US Library of Congress
- H.Res. 287 "America" (AHasting D-FL23) in Congress on July 11, 2007
- TOPS Lecture at Library of Congress, Drs. France and Easton
- Pope Valley School Cuts 1507 Globe Map for World Geography Month, Riccardo Gaudino, America500tv April 20, 2007.
- National Geographic News: US Buys Oldest Map Marked "America"
- Martin Waldseemüller - Bell Library: Maps and Mapmakers
- World Digital Library presentation of Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorum que lustrationes or A Map of the Entire World According to the Traditional Method of Ptolemy and Corrected with Other Lands of Amerigo Vespucci. Library of Congress.
