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WALTSEEMULLER,M.
By Pierre Joppen
Sep 7, 2004, 08:03

His 12-sheet woodblock world map of 1507 was the first to use the name America (after explorer Amerigo Vespucci) and was used as a source by other map-makers.

Only one copy of his map survives (rediscovered in 1901).

He also produced an important edition of Ptolemy with 20 modern maps added. His version of the Geographia was published in 1513 and again in 1520. Reduced size blocks were used for the maps in editions of 1522, 1525, 1535 (edited by Michael Servetus who was burned at the stake), and 1541.