A map depicting the two transatlantic voyages of Amerigo Vespucci between 1499 and 1502. It is based on the 1507 map by Martin Waldseemüller, a German clergyman and cartographer, which first referred to the southern hemisphere where Amerigo Vespucci landed in 1501 as America. Waldseemüller and his collaborator Matthias Ringmann gave their Introduction to Cosmography an accompanying world map...












