Martin Waldesmuller was the first cartographer to identify America as a separate continent and named it after Amerigo Vespucci Published in 1507 his...
{"Image ImageDescription": "Martin Waldesmuller was the first cartographer to identify America as a separate continent, and named it after Amerigo Vespucci. Published in 1507, his twelve-panel wall map, the Universalis Cosmographia, was also one of the first European maps to show latitude and longitude. Map by Martin Waldseemuller. (Photo by: Photo 12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)"}