Martin Waldseemüller

Martin Waldseemüller (c. 1470 – 16 March 1520) was a German cartographer. He and Matthias Ringmann are credited with the first recorded usage of the word ‘America’ — on the 1507 map Universalis Cosmographia in honor of the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci.

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