Waldseemuller, Martin (c. 1470-1520). Tabula Moderna Italie. Strassbourg, 1513 Weekly Offering 7012020 The work waspublished to promote

The work waspublished to promote the claims on New France in Louis XIII's court at a critical time

and we know he never left New France

the grandson of Vasco de Gama

and their use in his maps make them the most reliable contemporary record of agricultural and mineral wealth in the state

nor have I had any account of them that I could depend upon

Waldseemuller, Martin (c. 1470-1520). Tabula Moderna Italie. Strassbourg, 1513 Weekly Offering 7012020 The work waspublished to promoteMartin Waldseemuller (c. 1470 1520) Tabula Moderna Italie Woodcut map Strassbourg: 1513 17 1 2 x 23 1 4 sheet Ptolemys First Modern Map of Italy One of the earliest maps of Italy based on modern top onymy rather than classical place names. The present map of Italy is part of the Supplementum Modernior which Nordenskiold calls the first modern atlas of the world. Waldseemller in the introduction to his Pars Secunda: We have confined the Geographia of