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	Martin Waldseemuller Biography
		The Cosmographiae describes why the name America was used: ab Americo Inventore...quasi Americi terram sive Americam (from Amerigo the discoverer...as if it were the land of Americus, thus America).
		Some hold that the Cosmographiae was written by Matthias Ringmann instead, or that it was a joint effort.
		In his reworking of the Ptolemy atlas (written with Ringmann) the continent is labelled simply Terra Incognita.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Waldseemuller_Martin.html (310 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Martin Waldseemuller
		The preservation of the single copy of the map is due to the fact that the noted chartographer, Johannes Schöner, bound the different sheets together in a cover.
		After completing the great publication of 1507, Waldseemüller and his friend Matthias Ringmann (Philesius) devoted themselves to completing the new Latin edition of the geography of Ptolemy.
		While Ringmann corrected the texts of the editions of Ptolemy issued at Rome and Ulm by means of a manuscript Greek text borrowed from Italy that is now known as the "Cod.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15531a.htm (902 words)

	1511
		Related Topics: Albuquerque, Matthias, French, Bartolomeo, October, Malacca, sailor, Newfoundland, Years, composer, 1530s, courts, Tano, 16th, warlord
		Philippe de Commines, French-speaking Fleming in the courts of Burgundy and France (born 1447)
		Matthias Ringmann, German cartographer and humanist poet (born 1482)
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/1/15/1511.html (372 words)

	CalendarHome.com - 1482 - Calendar Encyclopedia
		Richard Pace, English diplomat (approximate date; died 1536)
		Matthias Ringmann, German cartographer and humanist poet (died 1511)
		March 27 - Mary of Burgundy, daughter of Charles the Bold and wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1457)
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /1482.htm (186 words)

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