Waldseemuller Map Was The First To Show This Ocean

This map has the experts mystified because it depicts the pacific ocean at least 10 years before the spaniard balboa was supposed to have discovered it. The portrait is accompanied by a map that shows the new lands whose discovery. 13, 2007, at the library of congress (loc) in washington, d.c.

4 other copies of this map. In depicting the americas separate from asia, the map shows a great ocean between the mountainous western coasts of the americas and the eastern coast of asia. A map, a globe, and a text to shock 16th century europe.

The 1507 waldseemüller’s map is printed on 12 sheets, 4 x 7.5 feet, van duzer continues and is based on the cartography techniques of ptolemic projections and longitudes and latitudes.

Interestingly, it takes a lot of its features from the 1490 map of cartographer henricus martellus (yale university, beinecke library. Despite these remarkable advances, the map, has two serious defects. Sometimes known by the latinized form of his name, hylacomylus, his work was influential among contemporary cartographers.he and his collaborator matthias ringmann are credited with the first recorded usage of the word america to name a portion of the new world. The large map is the first to show a separate western hemisphere and to show the pacific ocean as a distinct ocean.