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On his 1516 world map, the Carta Marina, Waldseemüller identified the land he had called Parias on his 1507 map as Terra de Cuba and said it was part of Asia (Asie partis); that is, he explicitly identified the land discovered by Columbus as the eastern part of Asia.
His maps depicted most of Europe, the northern half of Africa and the western half of Asia, but they didn't, of course, include all the parts of Asia visited by Marco Polo in the 13th century, or...
Jan 28, 2023 · Martin Waldseemüller was a brilliant German humanist, academic, cartographer and cosmographer. In the early sixteenth century he and a colleague published one of the most important maps in the history of cartography, the Universalis Cosmographia, dated 1507. Born near Freiburg in 1470, at some point he and his family moved to the city proper ...
Prior to 1507, all European maps had shown only the three continents known to the ancients: Africa, Asia, and Europe. This is the first map, to include the 'New World' unknown to the ancients and to name it as 'America'.
May 3, 2021 · The name "Ulmer Schachtel" (Ulm box), which is common today, derives from a comment made by a member of the Württemberg parliament in the 1840s: "You Ulmers with your boxes!" Wackerstein on the Danube.
Mar 28, 2020 · The Ulm Minster’s claim to fame lies in its soaring spire, which, at 161.53 meters, is the tallest church spire in the world. With its foundations laid in 1377, this architectural marvel reached completion in 1890 after undergoing various construction phases.
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The two aspects of the shape and the location of the New World on the map, separated as it is from Asia, are chronologically and chronometrically problematic in that in 1507, the map’s supposed creation date, neither Vasco Núñez de Balboa nor Ferdinand Magellan had reached the Pacific Ocean.
