You tin directly explore the kickoff e'er map to role the give-and-take 'America' - amongst Google Maps. Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 map 'Universalis Cosmographia' has the 'America' place-name on what is directly called South America. The advert was used past times Waldseemüller inwards accolade of the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci.
A Land Beyond the Stars is a novel website created past times the Geography in addition to Map Division of the Library of Congress in addition to the Galileo Museum inwards Florence. As good equally the interactive version of Waldseemüller's 1507 map the site includes a wealth of data in addition to videos explaining 16th century agreement of cartography & astronomy.
The interactive map itself contains a set out of options to acquire to a greater extent than close the Universalis Cosmographia map. These options include detailed explanations of the map's top dog 5 sections, translations of the Latin text in addition to explanations of unopen to of the map illustrations.
