File:Waldseemüller world map 1508.jpg

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English: Martin Waldseemüller's world map, including inset maps of Ptolemy's Old World and Amerigo Vespucci's account of the New World. 1507
Čeština: Velká barevná mapa od Martina Waldseemüllera. 1507
Date and 1508
date QS:P,+1507-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580,+1507-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1508-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota; Vanhakartta
Author Ptolemy & al.
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