Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress Working from Portuguese nautical data and falsified Vespucci letters, Matthias Ringmann (in a 1878-79 portrait) and Martin Waldseemüller made a ...

April 25 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1507, German geographer and mapmaker Martin Waldseemuller published a book in which he named the newly discovered continent of the New World "America ...