First Map Of North America

First Map Of North America. Continental History It's So Hot Right Now (Guest Post by Benjamin E Dié, near Strasbourg, France, during the first decade of the sixteenth century, to document and update new geographic knowledge derived from the discoveries of the late fifteenth and the first years of the sixteenth centuries. This nautical chart is the first known cartographic representation of the American continent

Waldseemüller was the first European cartographer to imagine North and South America as separate continents, the first to create a full 360-degree view of the world that included the Pacific. It shows the extent of our knowledge of the world in 1500

Engraved illustration of a Map of North America from Iconographic

The two names he put on his 1538 world map are the ones we've used ever since: North America and South America Dié, near Strasbourg, France, during the first decade of the sixteenth century, to document and update new geographic knowledge derived from the discoveries of the late fifteenth and the first years of the sixteenth centuries. That is five to six years after Waldseemüller made his map

Engraved illustration of a Map of North America from Iconographic. The two names he put on his 1538 world map are the ones we've used ever since: North America and South America It was produced by the navigator Juan de la Cosa in 1500 in Puerto de Santa Maria (Cadiz, Spain), as can be seen from the inscription below the image of Saint Christopher.

Prehistoric Map Of North America Map. Waldseemüller was the first European cartographer to imagine North and South America as separate continents, the first to create a full 360-degree view of the world that included the Pacific. It is known as the first map to use the name "America"