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[142] D'Avezac, M. A. P. Martin Hylacomylus Walzemuller ses ouvrages et ses collaborateurs. Paris, 1867; Gallois. Les Geographes. Chap. iv. "L'ecole Alsacienne-Lorraine"; Schmidt, C. Histoire litteraire de l'Alsace a la fin du XV?

et au commencement du XVI? siecle. Paris, 1879.

[143] Schmidt, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 111; Humboldt, A. v.

Kritische Untersuchungen. Berlin, 1852. Vol. II, p. 363; Gallois, L. Le Gymnase Vosgien. (In: Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie de l'Est. Paris, 1900. pp. 88 ff.); D'Avezac, op. cit., p. 11.

[144] A canon of the cathedral of St. Die. Lud gives us the information that he was the translator of the Vespucci narrative from the French into the Latin.

[145] Gravier, N. F. Histoire de Saint-Die. Epinal, 1836. p.

202. The author refers to the character of Lud and to the influence of the St. Die press. Copies of Lud's most important little tract may be found in the British Museum, and in the Imperial Library of Vienna; it was printed in the St. Die in the year 1507.

[146] The full t.i.tle of this significant volume reads: 'Cosmographiae Introductio c.u.m quibusdam geometriae ac astronomiae principiis ad eam rem necessariis, insuper quatuor Americi Vespucci navigationes. Universalis Cosmographie descriptio tam in solido q? plano eis etiam insertis que Ptholomeo ignota a nuperis reperta sunt.'

'Introduction to Cosmography with certain necessary principles of geometry and astronomy to which are added the Four Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci a representation of the entire world, both in the solid (globe?) and projected on the plane, including also lands which were unknown to Ptolemy, and have been recently discovered.' Two editions of the work appeared in 1507, and others at later dates. An excellent reproduction of Waldseemuller's book in facsimile, with English translation, was published by the United States Catholic Historical Society under the t.i.tle, 'The Cosmographiae Introductio of Martin Waldseemuller in Facsimile followed by the Four Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci with their Translation into English.' Ed. by C. G.

Herbermann. New York, 1907.

[147] This is one of the best of the early printed editions of Ptolemy.

[148] May it not have been the Canerio chart to which allusion was made by Lud, or a chart of exactly that type?

See Stevenson, E. L. Marine World Chart of Nicolo de Canerio Januensis (ca.) 1502. With Facsimile of the unique original, measuring 115 x 225 cm. New York, 1908.

[149] Stevenson, E. L. Martin Waldseemuller and the early Lusitano-Germanic Cartography of the New World. New York, 1904. (In: Bulletin of the American Geographical Society.

New York, 1908. pp. 193-215.)

[150] Schmidt, C. (In: Memoires de la Societe d'Archeologie lorraine. Nancy, 1875. p. 227.)

[151] Fischer, J. and Wieser, F. R. v. The oldest map with the name America of the year 1507 and the Carta Marina of the year 1516 by M. Waldseemuller (Ilacomilus). Innsbruck, 1903. Text in German and English, the maps in facsimile. The authors in their text have considered such matters as the Wolfegg collective volume, a description of the two maps, the sources of Waldseemuller, and the influence of the maps on the subsequent cartography, especially of the New World.

[152] Printed on fol. "Aii."

[153] Printed on the back of folded leaf at the beginning of "Caput IX."

[154] Gallois. Les geographes. p. 48; Fischer and v. Wieser, op. cit., p. 14.

[155] The crude character of the map is in striking contrast with the world map of 1507.

[156] This is an excellent reproduction of the gores, copy of which was courteously sent the author by Prince Liechtenstein.

[157] Printed in the lower corner of the chart on the left, "Generalem igitur totius...o...b..s typum, quem ante annos aucos absolutum non sine grandi labore ex Ptolomei traditione ...

in lucem edideramus et in mille exemplaria exprimi curavinius...."

[158] Harrisse. B. A. V. No. 62.

[159] Harrisse. Discovery. p. 465.

[160] Harrisse. B. A. V. No. 61.

[161] Harrisse. B. A. V. No. 32, Ad.

[162] Harrisse. Discovery. p. 466.

[163] De Costa, B. F. The Lenox Globe. (In: Magazine of American History. New York, 1879. pp. 529-540.) De Costa had the globe map redrawn and printed in plane projection. See for reproduction, Winsor, Nordenskiold, Encyclopaedia Britannica. An excellent reproduction from a direct photograph of the globe may be found in Stevenson, E. L.

Typical early maps of the New World. (In: Bulletin of the American Geographical Society. New York, 1907. pp. 202-224.)

[164] Estreicher, T. Ein Erdglobus aus dem Anfange des XVI Jh. in der Jagellonischen Bibliothek. (In: Bulletin International de l'Academie des Sciences de Cracovie.

Cracovie, 1900. pp. 96-105.)

The construction of the clockwork to be found in this small copper sphere in La Nature, 1892. No. 996, p. 75. The globe is referred to by Stevenson, E. L., in Martin Waldseemuller and the Lusitano-Germanic Cartography of the New World. (In: Bulletin of the American Geographical Society. New York, 1904. pp. 193-215.)

[165] Waldseemuller, op. cit., Caput vii.

[166] Luksch, M. J. Zwei Denkmale alter Kartographie. Wien, 1886. (In: Mitteilung der k. k. Geog. Gesellschaft. Wien, 1886. pp. 364-373.); Varnhagen, F. A. Jo. Schoner e P.

Apia.n.u.s. Wien, 1872. On p. 52 the opinion is expressed that the globe was made in Brixen from the fact that this relatively unimportant town is inscribed. Harrisse.

Discovery. pp. 491, 492; Nordenskiold. Facsimile Atlas. p.

76.

[167] Marcel, G. Un globe ma.n.u.scrit de l'ecole de Schoner. Paris, 1889. (In: Bulletin de geographie historique et descriptive. Paris, 1889. p. 173.); same author, Reproduction de carte et de globes relatif a la decouverte de l'Amerique. Paris, 1894. pp. 11-14.

[168] Harrisse. Discovery. p. 490.

[169] Nordenskiold. Facsimile Atlas. p. 76; reproduced on pl. x.x.xVII; same author, Om en marklig globakarta fran borjan af s.e.xtonde seklet. Stockholm, 1884. The latter has been translated under the t.i.tle, A remarkable globe map of the sixteenth century, with facsimile, by E. A. Elfwing, and published in Journal of the American Geographical Society.

New York, 1884.

[170] Here the name "America" is more clearly a.s.signed to the entire continent than in the Waldseemuller map.

[171] See below, p. 176.

[172] Major, R. H. Memoir on a mappemonde by Leonardo da Vinci, being the earliest map hitherto known containing the name America: now in the Royal Collection at Windsor.

London, 1865; Wieser. Magalhaes-Stra.s.se. pl. III, a reproduction of the gores showing the New World, joined in a hemisphere; d'Adda, Marquis Girolamo. Leonardo da Vinci e la Cosmografia. (In: La Perzeveranza. Milano, 1870.); Richter, J. P. Literary Works of Da Vinci. London, 1883. Both d'Adda and Richter doubt the Da Vinci origin of these gores.

[173] Harrisse, op, cit., p. 504.

[174] See above, p. 67.

[175] Nordenskiold, op. cit., p. 76; reproduced on pl.

x.x.xVIII; Catalogue de livres appartenant a M. H. Tross.

Paris, 1881, item 4924, with a reproduction of the gores.

[176] Harrisse, op. cit., pp. 494-496.

[177] Marcel, G. Louis Boulengier d'Alby. Paris, 1890. (In: Bulletin de geographie historique et descriptive. Paris, 1890.)

[178] This statement reads: "Habes candide lector tabellam preinsculptam tibi lat.i.tudinem graduum regionium ... In globo vero diei quant.i.tatem et noctis ... sic comprehendere potes omni de regione tam per glob.u.m quam per s.e.xagenarium."

"You have, dear Reader, before you, a small plate on which are inscribed the degrees of lat.i.tude of the countries ...

on the globe (you see) the duration of the day and night ...

thereby you will be able to ascertain (the position of) every country by the globe as well as by the s.e.xennium."

[179] Tessier, A. Di Cesare Vecellio e de' suoi dipinti e disegni in una Collezione di libri dei secoli XV e XVI.

Rome, 1876. (In: Bollettino della Societe geografica italiana. Rome, 1876. Serie II, Vol. I, pp. 39-42.)

Tessier's discourse was delivered at the Venetian Atheneum, 1875. Jacoli, F., likewise refers to this globe in Gazzetta di Venezia, January 15, 1876. It is not known just what disposition has been made of the globes by Admiral Acton.