WALDSEEIVIIALER, or WALTZEIVIUL LER. V:i 11 MARTIN (e.1470-(.1514). A German geographer, born at Freiburg. For sev eral years after 1505 he was professor of geog raphy in the College of Saint-Die in Lorraine. In 1506 lie and some compatriots matured a plan for a new edition of the work of Ptolemy, re vised and amended so as to include the results of recent discovery. In the following year Wald set:mutter finished a small treatise which he in teudud as an introduetion to the more elaborate work; and this treatise, together with a Latin translation of the famous second letter from Americus Vespucius (q.v.) to Soderini, and some verses in praise of Vespucius. was published muter the title of Cosmographia' introductio on the college press in the same year. The work is famous because in it Waldseemilller said "But now the parts have been more extensively explored and another fourth part has !well discov ered by Americus Vespucius (as will appear from what follows I : tt I do not see what is ri!ditly to hinder us from calhng it .\merige or America. i.e. the land of Americus, after its discoverer Americus." By this Waldseenitiller
did not mean that Americus had discovered the new regions first, or that the whole of what had been discovered should be named in his honor; on the it seems that by the 'Fourth Part' he meant merely the northeastern part of what i- now known as :south America. The new edition of Ptolemy was finally published in 1.513. It contained a map called Talodu Tcrne .\ orw. which had been made under the supervi sion of Waldseemtiller prior to 1508. On this nmp the 'Fourth Part' is not called America. but Terra Incognita : while to the left, referring to the Pearl Coast and perhaps to Honduras, is the in scription: "This land with the adjacent islands was discovered by Columbus of Genoa by order of the King of Castile." Of the first edition of the t'os»io9raphift but one copy is knomn to he in existenve, and it is in the Lenox Library in New York City. Of the three other editions published the some year, about 2it copies are preserved. Consult Fiske, The Discovery of America (Bos ton, 1902).