CULTURAL READINGS: Colonization & Print in the Americas

Jay I. Kislak Foundation

Martin Waldseemüller, Cosmographiae introductio cum quibusdam geometriae ac astronomiae principiis ad eam rem necessariis. St. Dié: Walter Ludd, 1507.

Few books were as influential in the history of Europe's conceptualization of the New World as Waldseemüller's small quarto volume, published in a village in Lorraine. The volume comprises three related works, the longest of which is the voyages of Amerigo Vespucci. Waldseemüller also published a world map incorporating Spanish and Portuguese discoveries, which he had printed in large sheets and sold separately.

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