First published in the 'Epitome Trium Terrae Partium' (1534), Vadianus’s best-known work. He also wrote a commentary for 

The map is among the earliest to use the name ‘America’, following Münster and, earlier, 

's 1507 world map. It also shows an ocean to the west of the 

, suggesting a water barrier between Asia and America. North America is unrecognisable as a thin country labelled ‘Terra de Cuba’, whereas South America has a more recognizable outline. The two landmasses are separated by a small conjectural passage. The representation of the 

’s world map published in 1532 but omits the Caribbean islands.

Asia, Africa, and Europe are traditionally represented, save for a curious extension of Northern Europe reaching to the North Pole. Vadianus departs from the Ptolemaic projection of India and Sri Lanka to make the subcontinent narrower and more accurate.

Joachim Vadianus (born Joachim von Watte) (1484–1551) was a Swiss humanist. He was the city physician and mayor of Saint Gallen and oversaw the town's conversion to Protestantism during the Reformation.

Four years after the appearance of the controversial 

 world map (see SC-TM-1532-Munster-WorldMap), Vadianus published a simplified version of the oval projection, without the decorative borders created by Hans Holbein the Younger.

This delightful, restrained woodcut map was created by Joachim von Watte, known as Vadianus. It is a simplified version of 

's world map of 1532 but lacks the fantastical borders from Hans Holbein the Younger (see SC-TM-1532-Munster-WorldMap).

Vadianus's map is among the earliest to use the name ‘America’. The representation of the 

 is based on Münster's world map but omits the Caribbean islands. It contains, however, a more accurate depiction of India and Sri Lanka.

The windheads surrounding this map are uniquely engraved. Gridlines over the Earth record longitude and latitude; a scroll at the bottom of the map states the date of its production in Roman numerals.

Vadianus's World Map