Martin Waldseemüller's 'Carta marina' of 1516; .: Study and Transcription of the Long Legends

1. Introduction to the Carta marina

   1.1. Martin Waldseemüller and His Works

   1.2. Comparing and Contrasting the 1507 and 1516 Maps

   1.3. Waldseemüller's Textual Sources on the Carta marina

   1.4. The Carta marina's Iconographical Program, and its Sources

   1.5. The Development of Waldseemüller's Cartographic Thought

   1.6. Evidence for the Diffusion of the Carta marina

2. Transcription, Translation, and Study of the Legends

   Sheet 1. North America, Caribbean, North Atlantic

   Sheet 2. Newfoundland and Europe

   Sheet 3. Northern Asia

   Sheet 4. Northeastern Asia

   Sheet 6. Western Africa

   Sheet 6A. Western Africa

   Sheet 7. East Africa, the Red Sea, Arabia, and the Western Indian Ocean

   Sheet 8. Southern India and Southeast Asia

   Sheet 9. Cartouches in the Map's Southwest Corner

   Sheet 10. Southern South America and the South Atlantic

   Sheet 11. Southern Africa and the Southwestern Indian Ocean

   Sheet 12. The Southern Indian Ocean