Editing Naming of the Americas (section)

==Earliest use of name==
[[File:Waldseemuller map 2.jpg|thumb|World map of [[Martin Waldseemüller|Waldseemüller]] (Germany, 1507), which first used the name America (in the lower-left section, over South America)<ref name=LoCmap />]]

The earliest known use of the name ''America'' dates to April 25, 1507, when it was applied to what is now known as South America.<ref name=LoCmap>{{cite web|url=http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/gmd:@field%28NUMBER+@band%28g3200+ct000725C%29%29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090109175922/http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem%2Fgmd%3A%40field%28NUMBER+%40band%28g3200+ct000725C%29%29|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 9, 2009|title=Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii alioru[m]que lustrationes.|accessdate=September 8, 2014}}</ref> It appears on a small globe map with twelve time zones, together with the largest [[Waldseemüller map|wall map]] made to date, both created by the German [[cartographer]] [[Martin Waldseemüller]] in [[Saint-Dié-des-Vosges]] in France.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lccn.loc.gov/2003626426|title=Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii alioru[m]que lustrationes|publisher=Library of Congress|location=Washington, DC| author=Martin Waldseemüller|lccn=2003626426|accessdate=April 18, 2014}}</ref> These were the first maps to show the Americas as a land mass separate from Asia. An accompanying book, ''[[Cosmographiae Introductio]]'', anonymous but apparently written by Waldseemüller's collaborator [[Matthias Ringmann]],<ref name=Smiths>{{Cite journal|last=Toby Lester|first=December|year=2009|title=Putting America on the Map|journal=Smithsonian|volume=40|page=9}}</ref> states, "I do not see what right any one would have to object to calling this part [that is, the South American mainland], after Americus who discovered it and who is a man of intelligence, Amerigen, that is, the Land of Americus, or America: since both Europa and Asia got their names from women". ''America'' is also inscribed on the Paris Green Globe (or ''Globe vert'') which has been attributed to Waldseemüller and dated to 1506–07: as well as the single name inscribed on the northern and southern parts of the [[New World]], the continent also bears the inscription: ''America ab inuentore nuncupata'' (America, named after its discoverer).<ref>Monique Pelletier, "Le Globe vert et l'oeuvre cosmographique du Gymnase Vosgien”, ''Bulletin du Comité français de cartographie,'' 163, 2000, pp. 17-31.[http://www.lecfc.fr/new/articles/163-article-3.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918101146/http://www.lecfc.fr/new/articles/163-article-3.pdf|date=2020-09-18}}</ref>

[[Gerardus Mercator|Mercator]] on [[Mercator 1569 world map|his map]] called North America "America or New India" (''America sive India Nova'').<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mercator 1587 {{!}} Envisioning the World {{!}} The First Printed Maps|url=https://lib-dbserver.princeton.edu/visual_materials/maps/websites/wendt-world-maps/Mercator_1587.html|access-date=2020-09-12|website=lib-dbserver.princeton.edu}}</ref>
[[File:Globe vert America.tif|thumb|Globe vert America]]
[[File:America ab inventore nuncupant Globe vert.tif|thumb|America ab inventore nuncupata (America, called after its discoverer) on the Globe vert, {{Circa|1507}}]]