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"Cosmographiae introductio"
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Imago Mundi
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The Ancient World
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Claudius Ptolemy
Amerigo Vespucci
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“In describing the general aspect of the Earth, we have sought to represent the lands known to the ancients with the addition of those discovered by the moderns […]”
M. Waldseemüller,
Cosmographiae introductio
, 1507
