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Cosmographiae Introductio (
Saint-Dié,
1507) was a book published in
1507 to accompany
Martin Waldseemüller's map of the world and wall-map (
Universalis Cosmographia), which was the first appearance of the name 'America'. Waldseemüller’s map and book, along with his
1513 edition of
Ptolemy’s
Geography, were very influential and widely copied at the time.
It is widely held to have been written by
Matthias Ringmann although some historians attribute it to Waldseemüller himself. The book includes the reason for using the name America in the map and the globe, and contains a Latin translation of the four journeys of
Amerigo Vespucci as an appendix.
The full title of the book is: "Cosmographiae introductio cum quibusdam geometriae ac astronomiae principiis ad eam rem necessariis. Insuper quatuor Americi Vespucii navigationes. Universalis Cosmographiae descriptio tam in solido quam plano, eis etiam insertis, quae Ptholomaeo ignota a nuperis reperta sunt."
The map of the world in 1507, entitled "Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorumque lustrationes", was published in an edition of 1000 copies, of which it seems only a single copy survives. The surviving copy was found in the library of Prince von Waldburg-Wolfegg-Waldsee in the Castle of
Wolfegg in
Württemberg. It was bought by the
Library of Congress in
2001. This preservation seems to be due the several sheets being bound into a single cover by the cartographer,
Johannes Schöner.
The map consists of twelve sections printed from wood engravings measuring 18 x 24.5 inches (46 x 62 cm). Each section is one of four, that form one of three zones. The map uses a modified Ptolemaic coniform
projection with curved meridians to depict the entire surface of the Earth.
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