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Martin Waldseemuller
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
Catholic geographer. Born 1475; died 1522. Drew up the first modern atlas of the world, a Latinized edition of Ptolemy's geography with 20 additional maps, used the name America in his world map (1507), and made a translation in Latin of the voyages of Amerigo Vespucci.
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Entry for 'Martin Waldseemuller'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/m/martin-waldseemuller.html. 1910.