Carta marina
Renaissance cartographer Martin Waldseemüller's 1516 "Carta marina" was the second of two famous maps he made.
1507 Waldseemüller World Map
Waldseemüller is best known for his 1507 world map, the first to call the New World "America."
Ptolemaic World Map (c.1460)
Waldseemüller began his career by basing his maps on those of the Alexandrine geographer Claudius Ptolemy from the second century AD.
World Map by Henricus Martellus (c. 1491)
Waldseemüller's 1507 world map was closely based on a Ptolemaic map by Henricus Martellus.
1513 Ptolemaic world map
After his 1507 world map, Waldseemüller made maps that appeared in the 1513 edition of "Ptolemy's Geography."
Modern world map in 1513 Ptolemy
Waldseemüller included some modern maps based on nautical charts in the his 1513 atlas too.
Carta marina texts
Waldseemüller's map is crowded with descriptive texts and illustrations of royal rulers.
A cartographer at work (Pfinzing's Methodus geometrica, 1598)
While at work on the Carta marina, Waldseemüller may have looked something like this.
Nicolo de Caverio nautical chart (c. 1503)
Waldseemüller based the Carta marina's coastlines on a nautical chart made by Nicolo de Caverio of Genoa in about 1503.
Pierre d'Ailly's Imago mundi
One of the sources Waldseemüller lists for his Carta marina is Pierre d’Ailly, a French cardinal, theologian and cosmographer who wrote a cosmographical book titled the Imago mundi or Image of the World in 1410.
Map by Johannes Ruysch (1507)
The Carta marina contains a legend describing inhabitants of the New World, likely taken from a world map by Johannes Ruysch.
