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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.)