<P> While some maps after 1500 show , with ambiguity , an eastern coastline for Asia distinct from the Americas , the Waldseemüller map apparently indicates the existence of a new ocean between the trans - Atlantic regions of the Spanish discoveries and the Asia of Ptolemy and Marco Polo as exhibited on the 1492 Behaim globe . The first historical records of Europeans to set eyes on this ocean , the Pacific , are recorded as Vasco Núñez de Balboa in 1513 . That is five to six years after Waldseemüller made his map . In addition , the map apparently predicts the width of South America at certain latitudes to within 70 miles . However , as pointed out by E.G. Ravenstein , this is an illusory effect of the cordiform projection used by Waldseemüller , for when the map is laid out on a more familiar equirectangular projection and compared with others of the period also set out on that same projection there is little difference between them : this is particularly evident when the comparison is made with Johannes Schöner 's 1515 globe . </P>
<P> While some maps after 1500 show , with ambiguity , an eastern coastline for Asia distinct from the Americas , the Waldseemüller map apparently indicates the existence of a new ocean between the trans - Atlantic regions of the Spanish discoveries and the Asia of Ptolemy and Marco Polo as exhibited on the 1492 Behaim globe . The first historical records of Europeans to set eyes on this ocean , the Pacific , are recorded as Vasco Núñez de Balboa in 1513 . That is five to six years after Waldseemüller made his map . In addition , the map apparently predicts the width of South America at certain latitudes to within 70 miles . However , as pointed out by E.G. Ravenstein , this is an illusory effect of the cordiform projection used by Waldseemüller , for when the map is laid out on a more familiar equirectangular projection and compared with others of the period also set out on that same projection there is little difference between them : this is particularly evident when the comparison is made with Johannes Schöner 's 1515 globe . </P>
who published the first map that showed the new world as separate from asia
who published the first map that showed the new world as separate from asia
Waldseemüller
Waldseemüller