Waldseemuller map 2
Waldseemüller map from 1507 is the first map to include the name "America" and the first to depict the Americas as separate from Asia. There is only one surviving copy of the map, which was purchased by the in 2001 for $10 million.
- Date
- 1507
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 13,708 × 7,590 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.
Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
Credit line
"Waldseemuller map 2" (1507). Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waldseemuller_map_2.jpgNeed maps for a whole project? Add Find Any Map to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 21641.
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