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Chet Van Duzer

Chet Van Duzer exhibits

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Chet Van Duzer exhibits

Waldseemuller's Carta Marina of 1516

This exhibit contains a single, but very important historical image, curated by Chet Van Duzer with four DOT stories. The Carta Marina of 1516, was created by Martin Waldseemuller, who is most famous for another map, published in 1507, called "America's Birth Certificate." Based on a talk by Chet Van Duzer from May 2020.Library of Congress images here.Watch Chet Van Duzer’s entire talk from May 2020 on YouTube here.Read the announcement about Chet Van Duzer’s talk here.Read Tom Paper’s summary of the talk here.Read about Martin Waldseemuller here.>>>Link here for a November 20, 2020 talk given by Van Duzer about an unstudied map of the world from 1535. Sponsored by NYU."My book about the Carta marina is actually in Open Access, though the publisher does not make the link easy to find for some strange reason. Here are the details and the link:Van Duzer, Chet, Martin Waldseemüller’s Carta marina of 1516: Study and Transcription of the Long Legends (New York: Springer, 2020) —available in Open Access at https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-22703-6"Chet's legend (here) that goes with his book.See also E511 for more detailed maps.keywords: earlymaps

Mappa Mundi Exhibit (Courtney Spikes & Chet Van Duzer)

March 16, 2025 - Chet Van Duzer has a new project! Multispectral imaging for the Leardo mappamundi, made in the 1452.Please explore several examples of medieval mappa mundi, organized by date, with descriptions and links included.This exhibit was originally organized for a presentation by Courtney Spikes to Tom Paper's maps class at Williams College in January 2024. It has since been updated to include other mappamundi and work by Chet Van Duzer.

Carta Marina - 1516

this is all the images from exhibit 49 moved from e49 to this exhibit 3/8/2024by tmp 8/29/24 (updated 11/29/25)The Carta Marina by Martin Waldseemüller, published in 1516, is a large and richly detailed world map considered one of the first printed nautical charts of the entire world. It is markedly superior in artistic detail to Waldseemüller's more famous 1507 map, and may have involved the hand of the artist Albrecht Dürer. The map reflects a radical re-evaluation of world geography by Waldseemüller: he rejected the Ptolemaic model used earlier and omitted the name "America," showing instead the newly discovered lands as connected to Asia. The map includes detailed geographic, political, and ethnographic information, combining both official knowledge and fantastical elements such as depictions of cannibals and mythical creatures. It also uses new cartographic techniques, such as shading for oceans instead of dense line patterns, and includes coats of arms for countries, indicating political realities known at the time.The Carta Marina was arranged on twelve large sheets designed to be assembled into a wall map, measuring approximately 128 by 233 cm. It incorporated updated geographical knowledge from contemporary explorers and sources but also retained some curious errors, such as misattributing the discovery of Newfoundland to Spain instead of Portugal. This ambitious map emphasizes the dynamism of early 16th-century cartography and Waldseemüller's determination to depict the world as he understood it, blending art, scholarship, and exploration history. Martin WaldseemüllerMartin Waldseemüller (c. 1470 – 1520) was a German cartographer, humanist scholar, and cosmographer most famous for creating the 1507 world map that was the first to use the name "America" to designate the New World, honoring the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci. Educated at Freiburg and influenced by Renaissance humanism, he worked in the small town of Saint-Dié in Lorraine, France, where he collaborated with other scholars such as Matthias Ringmann. Their 1507 map, Universalis Cosmographia, was a landmark in cartography because it showed the Americas as separate continents distinct from Asia and introduced new geographic knowledge derived from exploration.Waldseemüller also produced the first printed globe gores and was a pioneer in wall maps and atlases, including his 1513 edition of Ptolemy’s Geography and the 1516 Carta Marina, a large nautical chart of the world. Although he was initially enthusiastic about naming the new continents "America," he later expressed reluctance and did not use the name himself after the 1507 map. He died around 1520, but his maps heavily influenced European cartography for decades, laying foundational work for modern geography. His surviving 1507 map is now held at the US Library of Congress.Source: Perplexity.ai--G. Ly

Carta Marina for the "Nuits de la lecture"

Le célèbre cartographe Martin Waldseemüller, décédé en 1520, a réalisé une grande carte du monde en 1507, la première à appliquer le nom "Amérique" au Nouveau Monde, et une autre neuf ans plus tard en 1516, sa Carta marina. Au cours de ces neuf années, il a complètement changé ses idées sur ce que devait être une carte du monde : en réalisant sa Carta marina, il a mis de côté presque tout le travail qu'il avait fait pour sa carte de 1507, et a basé sa nouvelle carte sur une projection différente et des sources différentes, la rendant beaucoup plus riche en textes descriptifs et en images. De plus, alors qu'en 1507 il représentait les 360 degrés de la circonférence de la Terre, dans sa Carta marina, il ne montre que les parties qui étaient raisonnablement bien connues. En résumé, la carte était révolutionnaire.https://www.nuitsdelalecture.fr/a-propos Mon livre sur la Carta marina est disponible en accès libre. Voici les détails et le lien :Van Duzer, Chet, Martin Waldseemüller’s Carta marina of 1516: Study and Transcription of the Long Legends (New York: Springer, 2020)https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-22703-6