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1500’s

The protestant reformation, the Renaissance were significant parts of the historic 16th century with Martin Luther protesting indulgences and other sins with his 95 thesis; Michelangelo unveiled the ceiling of the Sistine chapel; Erasmus, with the help of printer John Froben, published a Greek-Latin Parallel New Testament, William Tyndale, 12 years after he left England, was led from prison to the stake where he was strangled, then his body burned; John Rogers burned to death at a stake at Smithfield, England. Also, the ‘Cosmographiae Introductio’ is printed and suggests the name “America” for the New World after explorer Americus Vespuccius; ; the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre, and the Spanish Armada occur.

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The 'Cosmographiae Introductio' is Printed and Suggests the Name "America" for the New World after Explorer Americus Vespuccius (Latin)

The ‘Cosmographiae Introductio’ is Printed and Suggests the Name “America” for the New World after Explorer Americus Vespuccius (Latin)

Cosmographiae Introductio ("Introduction to Cosmography"; Saint-Dié, 1507) is a book that was published in 1507 to accompany Martin Waldseemüller's printed globe and wall-map (Universalis Cosmographia). The book and map contain the first mention of the term 'America'. Waldseemüller's book and maps, along with his 1513 edition of Ptolemy’s Geography, were very influential and widely copied at the time. It is widely held to have been written by Matthias Ringmann although some historians attribute it ...
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