Die Cosmographiae Introductio Matthias Ringmanns und die Weltkarte Martin Waldseemüllers aus dem Jahre 1507. By Martin Lehmann

A Brief History of Wine in Spain

“…In 1507, Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann publish an astonishing world map, Universalis Cosmographia , which includes the first-ever mention of the word ‘America’. The map shows a remarkably accurate west coast of the Americas 42 . Waldseemüller and Ringmann know that there is an ocean between America and Asia, that Central America is narrow, and that there is an angle between the coasts of Chile and Peru.…”