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Facsimile copy from woodcut. Made on a printing press on paper, appropriate 16th century, through a complete reconstruction of the printing process. Watercolor painted by hand in accordance with preserved examples.

In 1492, Christopher Columbus reached the shores of America. But it took a few more years for the news of the opening of the New World to spread throughout Europe, confirmed and fixed. Cartographers and publishers continued the work of discoverers. Printed maps showed Europeans that somewhere over the ocean there are new lands, and gave new hopes.

In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller (c. 1470-1520) created a wall map of the world on which he first named the lands discovered by Christopher Columbus, America - in honor of the Florentine Amerigo Vespucci. The map consists of 12 woodcuts 18x24 in each. Only one copy of the map has survived; it was found at the beginning of the 20th century and was purchased by the Library of Congress in 2003.

Nevertheless, in 1513, M. Waldseemüller creates a new map of the New World, which does not use the name "America" and emphasizes the importance of the Christopher Columbus’ personality.

On a map of 1513, Waldseemüller connects North and South America and does not trace the west coast of the New World, supposedly still has doubts that the sailors reached a new, unknown land, and not in India, which Columbus had originally planned to get to.

He adheres to the canon set by Ptolemy: three parts of the world and the ocean, which is irrevocably inferior to the knowledge of modern times. The cartographer calls Christopher Columbus the Admiral - and the map becomes widely known as "Admiral’s Map".

Just on the map, the cartographer notes:
HEC TERRA CUM ADJACENTIBUS INSULIS INUENTA EST PER COLUMBUM JANUENSEM EX MANDATO REGIS CASTELLE
THIS LAND TOGETHER WITH THE ADJACENT ISLANDS WAS DISCOVERED BY COLUMBUS THE GENOESE BY COMMAND OF THE KING OF CASTILE

На карце абазначаны:
TERRA INCOGNITA – unknown land
OCEANUS OCCIDENTALIS – East (Atlantic) Ocean
ANGLIE PARS, ISPANIE PARS – parts of countries of Europe
AFRICE SIVE ETHIOPIE PARS – African continent
ISABELLA – Cuba
SPAGNOLLA – Haiti
Equinortialis – equator
Tropicus Caniri – Tropic of Cancer
Tropicus Capricorm – Tropic of Capricorn