Solinus, Caius Julius: Apianus, Petrus:

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JOANNIS CAMERTIS, IN C. IULII SOLINI [POLYHISTORIA] ENARRATIONES. From the collection of R. David Parsons. Caius Julius Solinus' Polyhistor, containing the famous double-page cordiform map by Peter Apianus: a cornerstone of American cartography and "the earliest obtainable map to name America" (Burden).Apianus' world map was issued bound into the 1520 Camertius edition of Solinus' Polyhistor, a classical work of geographical history largely based on works by the Elder Pliny and Pomponius Mela. The map depicts two large landmasses west of Africa: the little-known North American coast, here simply called "Terra incognita," and the larger, more detailed South American continent, with the region's new name prominently displayed within a statement praising the voyager who discovered it: "Anno d 1497 haec terra cum adiacentibus insulis inuenta est per Columbum Ianuensem ex mandato Regis Castellae AMERICA prouincia."The map was modeled by Apianus after Waldseemüller's original cordiform wall-map of 1507. Waldseemüller's map, known in a single copy acquired in 2002 to great acclaim by the Library of Congress, was the first cartographic work to identify the new continent with the place-name "America." Though Waldseemüller first suggested the term in his pamphlet Cosmographiae Introductio, which accompanied his world map of 1507, controversy soon arose regarding Vespucci's actual achievements, and Waldseemüller did not use it in his two 1513 atlas maps, nor in his Carta Marina wall map

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