Martin Waldseemüller
German cartographer
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Updated 2026-05-29
Early 1500s German mapmaker who put "America" on the map—literally, with Matthias Ringmann in 1507. Also first to print a globe and pioneer the modern atlas format. Basically invented how we visualize the world.
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Martin Waldseemüller was a German cartographer and humanist scholar. Sometimes known by the Hellenized form of his name, Hylacomylus, his work was influential among contemporary cartographers. His collaborator Matthias Ringmann and he are credited with the first recorded usage of the word America to name a portion of the New World in honour of Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci in a world map they delineated in 1507. The same map was the first to show the Americas as a distinct landmass clearly separated from Asia by the Pacific Ocean. Waldseemüller was also the first to produce a printed globe…
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