A tablet has been affixed to the house at No. 9 in the Lowenstrasse, at Freiburg, in Badei), in memory of Martin Waldseemiiller, the man who christened America. Waldseemiiller, who was born in 1470 in Wolfenwejler, near Freiburg, came to Freiburg in 1480 with his parents, who bought the house in the Lowenstraase. Martin was matriculated in the university in 1490, and in 1507 he published in the city of St. Die in the Vosges a map of the world with the title "Universalis Cosmographia secundum Ptolemae tra'ditione's et Ameriei Vespucci aliorumque lusfcrufciones." Tn the same year Waldseemiiller and his friend Ringman issued elucidations of this map and the proposal to name the new continent America in honour of Amerigo Vespucci
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20647, 9 September 1932, Page 7
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