America : Early Maps of the New World Book

	The Acquisition of Martin Waldseemuller's 1507 Globe Gores by the Bavarian State Library	7
	The Conception of the World on the Eve of the Discovery of America - Introduction	10
	America - Early Images of the New World	16
	The World in Books and Maps of the Fifteenth Century	16
	Early Literature about America: "Zeytungen" (Broadsheets), Travel Reports, and Cosmographies	27
	The Cosmography of Martin Waldseemuller	41
	The Munich Portolan Charts	42
	Famous Manuscript World Maps and Hand-Printed Globes of the Sixteenth Century	43
	Sixteenth-Century Printed Maps of the World	63
	Early Maps of America	90
	Newly Discovered Islands, Regions, and Peoples: The Letters of Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, and Hernan Cortes	103
	The Fantastic and the Real: The Perception of the New World in the "Neue Zeytungen"	109
	Martin Waldseemuller: The Most Important Cosmographer in a Period of Dramatic Scientific Change	111
	The Munich Portolan Charts: Past and Present	127
	Trial and Error in the Mapping of America during the Early Modern Period	145
	The Round Earth on a Flat Surface: World Map Projections before 1550	161
	Woodcutters and Cannibals: Brazilian Indians as Seen on Early Maps	175
	Afterword	182
	Bibliography	185
	Index of Names	190