Neue Website zum Kartographen Martin Waldseemüller

map1507_enlarge1507 Waldseemüller map. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress.

Die neue Website A Land Beyond the Stars widmet sich dem Kartographen Martin Waldseemüller (via blogs.loc.gov):

“The Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress and the Galileo Museum in Florence, Italy, today unveiled a multi-media interactive website that celebrates the life and times of 16th-century cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, who created the 1507 World Map, which is the first document to use the name “America,” represent the Pacific Ocean and depict a separate and full Western Hemisphere.

The website, “A Land Beyond the Stars,” brings the map’s wealth of historical, technical, scientific and geographic data to a broader public.”

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