File:Americi Vespucii 1507.jpg

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English: Americi Vespucii CROPPED Waldseemüller map from 1507 is the first map to include the name "America" and the first to depict the Americas as separate from Asia. There is only one surviving copy of the map, which was purchased by the Library of Congress
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Source https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3200.ct000725C/
Author Martin Waldseemüller
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