File:Waldseemuller_map,_complete_100%.jpg
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DescriptionWaldseemuller map, complete 100%.jpg |
The Waldseemüller map, the first map to include the name "America" and the first to depict the Americas as separate from Asia. The map comprises 12 separate sheets, shown here into a single image. There is only one surviving copy of the map, which was purchased by the Library of Congress in 2001 for $10 million. Its Latin title is "Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii alioru[m]que lustrationes". Converted from the LoC's JPEG2000 file to JPEG using the GIMP with 100% quality to allow upload on Wikimedia Commons. |
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current | 04:07, 4 January 2019 | 29,700 × 16,500 (440.6 MB) | Jeff G. | c:User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js: {{LargeImage}} == {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |Description=The Waldseemüller map, the first map to include the name "America" and the first to depict the Americas as separate from Asia. The map comprises 12 separate sheets, shown here into a single image. There is only one surviving copy of the map, which was purchased by the Library of Congress in 2001 for $10 million. Its Latin title is "Uni... |
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Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
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Vertical resolution | 300 dpi |
Software used | GIMP 2.10.0 |
File change date and time | 11:19, 3 January 2019 |