100 MAPS AND THEIR MAKERS 



are after Ptolemy but south-east Asia retains features of the 

 Contarini-Ruysch type. One thousand copies of this map were 

 printed, a large edition for the time, and evidence of the intense 

 interest of Europe in the new discoveries. Waldseemiiller could 

 record with satisfaction that it was received with great esteem. 

 Owing to its essentially Ptolemaic basis, the map gives an 

 extremely exaggerated representation of the eastward extension 

 of Asia; in fact the land-mass of the Old World extends through 

 some 230 degrees of longitude. Soon after its publication, 

 however, Waldseemiiller appears to have adopted the new 

 views of the navigators, for included in the Strasbourg edition 

 of Ptolemy, 1513, is a crudely drawn version of the Canerio 

 chart, with a few names only — the 'Orb is typus universalis 

 iuxta hydrographorum traditionem'. This but foreshadowed 

 the monumental * Carta marina navigatoria Portugallen' of 

 1516 (the Spaniards and others are rather unkindly overlooked) 

 in twelve woodcut sheets, and in view of what has been said 

 already about the Canerio map, its context requires little 

 comment: as its author states, it contains features ''differing 

 from the ancient tradition, and of which the authors of old were 

 unaware". The most striking feature is the reduction of the 

 longitudinal extent of Asia to something approaching reality. 

 Compared with the map of 1507, it exerted little influence on 

 later cartographers, though a poor second edition, with legends 

 in German, was published by Laurentius Fries in 1525. On the 

 other hand, the 1507 map became for three decades at least the 

 accepted world type; Schoner's terrestrial globe of 1515 

 follows it very closely, and in 1520 Peter Apian produced a 

 greatly reduced version, without acknowledgment, thus gaining 

 for himself an undeserved reputation. Versions of the latter 

 were edited by Gemma Phrysius and Sebastian Miinster, so 

 that the Waldseemiiller type held the field until the advent of 

 Mercator, Ortelius, and the Dutch school. 



