
Luke Batterham
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One of the earliest separate maps of America, and the first printed map on which the Pacific Ocean ("Mare pacificum") is named. The map's subsequent inclusion in Münster's Cosmography, "first published in 1544, sealed the fate of 'America' as the name of the New World" (Burden).