1507 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.»