1507 in Science - Cartography

Cartography

  • Martin Waldseemüller publishes his Cosmographiae Introductio ("Introduction to Universal Cosmography") and accompanying wall map, the first to show and name the Americas as a separate continent.
  • Johannes Ruysch's map of the world is first published in editions of Ptolemy's Geography produced in Rome.

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