Martin Waldseemüller

Martin Waldseemüller (c.1470 – 1520) was a German cartographer and scholar during the Renaissance.

In 1507, after the Florentine navigator Amerigo Vespucci noted that the lands he discovered across the Atlantic Ocean were in fact separate from Asia, Martin proposed to label them the "Americas" in his honor.

Ezio and Sofia studying a Waldseemüller map

Later, Martin created a global map that included with the Americas and the Pacific Ocean. One reproduction was sent to the librarian Sofia Sartor in Constantinople in 1511. As the Ottomans were blocking the ship that held her order in the port, the Italian Assassins' Mentor Ezio Auditore discreetly recovered the map and delivered it to Sartor, allowing them to study the map together.

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed: Revelations (first mentioned)
• Assassin's Creed: Initiates (mentioned in Database entry only)