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Universalis Cosmographia 1507

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Map by Martin Waldseemüller.

Date created
April 1507
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  • Two worlds: Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony: First part of a North Carolina history text for secondary students, covering the land, American Indians before contact with Europeans, Spanish exploration, the Roanoke colony, and the Columbian Exchange. (Page 3.2)

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map of the world, 1507

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Universalis Cosmographia is a twelve-panel wall map of the world drawn by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller and originally published in April 1507. It was one of the first maps to chart latitude and longitude precisely, following the example of Ptolemy, and was the first map to use the name “America”.