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America’s birth certificate


Statue of Amerigo VESPUCCI at Uffizi Gallery in Florence

Waldseemüller’s map

The Map That Named America, Information Bulletin, Library of Congress

Warping Waldseemuller: Computer Modeling and the Quest to Understand the 1507 and 1516 World Maps, Library of Congress, 2006

The Waldseemüller Map: Charting the New World, Smithsonian Magazine, Dec 9, 2009

Waldseemuller’s Map of America, C-Span, May 17, 2013

The epic story of the map that gave America its name, BBC.com, July 3, 2018

Waldseemüller’s globe

[MARTIN WALDSEEMÜLLER (c.1470 – c.1522). World map in the form of a set of terrestrial globe gores. St. Dié: 1507.]

Cosmographiae introductio cum quibusdam geometriae ac astronomiae principiis
(the book)

Digitalized version of the book : click here

Digitalized version of the page : click here